A new tool that allows researchers to create realistic full-body animations of monkeys has provided the first evidence that nonhuman primates experience the "uncanny valley" phenomenon for body avatars, according to a study by Lucas Maximilian Martini at the University Clinic Tübingen in Germany and colleagues at KU Leuven in Belgium, published in PLOS Biology.
Every social animal that operates primarily on vision has this…
It’s just mostly primates who fit that definition.
We’d be likely to see the same with certain parrot species and meercats maybe?
But use a parrot population from a zoo or aviary that lived it’s whole life around a large number of the same species, and it’ll get spider tingles from this shit too.
It’s a member who doesn’t fit into what you consider “us” but also no known subgroup of “them”, it freaks out a social brain. And the closer it gets to a real person/animal, the more alarm bells it rings because it’s more believable. But there will always be tells we pick up on subconsciously that it’s a trick.