animals think about thinking

Every mind has a different way of thought. But somebody thought that animal think about thinking.I think that this article was really cool. Humans are able to think about thinking; and some animals such as dolphins and birds can also think about thinking. I learned that some animals are more thoughtful than others. I wondered, are we the most thoughtful animals on the planet? what I thought was really cool was that other animals have mind orginisation. Some people that work with anmals, think they show signs of metacognition, or thinking about thinking. Dr. Hampton found out that other primates metacognition is parallel to our metacognition. they ran several tests to see if their theory was true. One of they test required a dolphin to make a decision between to choices. the dolphin hesitated and probally thought which choice was better. proving that other animals do think about thinking. But when pigeons are in doubt, they just plow ahead. Similar tests show that other monkeys react how the dolphin acted.
metacognition requires alot of self awareness, and scientists are not so sure that other animals posses this abiliaty.

Source:
http://www.livescience.com/animals/090915-thoughtful-animals.html