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Letter: Theories of mind at work in the laboratory

Published 26 July 2017

From John Downing, Oslo, Norway

You report evidence that some animals have a theory of mind (8 April, p 10) and Bryn Glover asks who is studying whom (Letters, 13 May). First laboratory rat to second rat: “I've really got that fellow in the white coat well trained. Every time I press this lever he gives me a raisin.”

Issue no. 3136 published 29 July 2017

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