{"id":1520,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/tiny-fish-has-human-levels-of-self-awareness\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","slug":"tiny-fish-has-human-levels-of-self-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/tiny-fish-has-human-levels-of-self-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny fish has human levels of self-awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-12 15:59:54<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A little fish has sophisticated self-awareness only previously seen in humans.<BR><br \/>\nThe finger-sized bluestreak cleaner wrasse has become the first fish to pass the &#8220;mirror test&#8221; which shows that it knows when it is looking at itself and is capable of using the reflection to compare its size to that of a predator.<BR><br \/>\nTaiga Kobayashi, who led the study at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan, told New Scientist: &#8220;Our study established cleaner fish as the first non-human animal to be demonstrated to possess private self-awareness.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This was unexpected because we had an image that this fish always shows aggression against rivals, regardless of size.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;These findings suggest that cleaner fish would likely possess two mental states: a mental image of their body and internal standards for comparing body size.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nKobayashi continued: &#8220;The results that fish can use the mirror as a tool can help clarify the similarities between human and non-human animal self-awareness and provide important clues to elucidate how self-awareness has evolved.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-12 15:59:54 A little fish has sophisticated self-awareness only previously seen in humans. The finger-sized bluestreak cleaner wrasse has become the first fish to pass the &#8220;mirror test&#8221; which shows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}