{"id":237773,"date":"2026-05-26T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/beluga-whales-recognize-themselves-in-the-mirror-passing-the-self-recognition-test"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:25:47","slug":"beluga-whales-recognize-themselves-in-the-mirror-passing-the-self-recognition-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/beluga-whales-recognize-themselves-in-the-mirror-passing-the-self-recognition-test","title":{"rendered":"Beluga whales recognize themselves in the mirror, passing the self-recognition test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beluga-whales-recognize-themselves-in-the-mirror-passing-the-self-recognition-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A case study of captive beluga whales has provided the first potential evidence of mirror self-recognition in the species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case study of captive beluga whales has provided the first potential evidence of mirror self-recognition in the species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}