{"id":82206,"date":"2018-08-30T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-species-of-fish-has-passed-the-mirror-test-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2018-08-30T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:02:55","slug":"a-species-of-fish-has-passed-the-mirror-test-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-species-of-fish-has-passed-the-mirror-test-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"A species of fish has passed the mirror test for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-species-of-fish-has-passed-the-mirror-test-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Yvaine Ye<\/p>\n<p>The cleaner wrasse is only the size of a human finger but it has become the first fish ever to pass the mirror test \u2013 a classic experiment used to gauge self-awareness in animals.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, only relatively intelligent animals \u2013 including apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies \u2013 have passed the test, which demonstrates whether an individual can recognise itself. But in 2016, two manta rays were filmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2081640-manta-rays-are-first-fish-to-recognise-themselves-in-a-mirror\/\">checking out their reflections<\/a> in a mirror in a fish tank, suggesting that fish may be able to \u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2178329-a-species-of-fish-has-passed-the-mirror-test-for-the-first-time\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2178329-a-species-of-fi...irst-time\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yvaine Ye The cleaner wrasse is only the size of a human finger but it has become the first fish ever to pass the mirror test \u2013 a classic experiment used to gauge self-awareness in animals. Until now, only relatively intelligent animals \u2013 including apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies \u2013 have passed the test, [\u2026]<\/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-82206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82206","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=82206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}