The following article, Body an Self in Dolphins, a review of self-awareness in dolphins as manifested in body awareness, is now available on-line in the journal, Consciousness and Cognition: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10538100 under the section "Articles in Press." Those of you who can access the journal and the article via your electronic library will also have access to the supplementary material, which consists of five video clips illustrating the paradigms used to examine the dolphin's conscious awareness of its own body parts, its own behaviors, and the behaviors of others. For those who cannot access the journal, please send me an email and I will be happy to forward you a PDF of the article, although the supplementary videos will not be included. The citation is: Herman, L. M. (2011, in press). Body and self in dolphins. Consciousness and Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.005. Abstract: In keeping with recent views of consciousness of self as represented in the body in action, empirical studies are reviewed that demonstrate a bottlenose dolphin's (Tursiops truncatus) conscious awareness of its own body and body parts, implying a representational ''body image'' system. Additional work reviewed demonstrates an advanced capability of dolphins for motor imitation of self-produced behaviors and of behaviors of others, including imitation of human actions, supporting hypotheses that dolphins have a sense of agency and ownership of their actions and may implicitly attribute those levels of self-awareness to others. Possibly, a mirror-neuron system, or its functional equivalent to that described in monkeys and humans, may mediate both self-awareness and awareness of others. Wishing everyone the best for the holiday season and for the New Year! Louis M. Herman, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, University of Hawaii lherman@hawaii.edu