How smart are your fish?

[Widgets]

I ran across this interesting article. 

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/scientists-teach-fish-to-do-basic-math/

[Fish Folk]

On 4/11/2022 at 8:41 PM, Widgets said:

I ran across this interesting article. 

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/scientists-teach-fish-to-do-basic-math/

 

Quote from the article... "The researchers wanted to make sure these animals weren't just getting trained to receive a yummy reward with certain images, but rather truly internalized how to add and subtract.”

 

*Fish to Scientist, “Oh there are other rewards . . . you want to see how smart I can really be? How about the reward that starts with 'spa-' and ends with '-wning' ?"

[lefty o]

many moons ago when i had the long nose gar. toss in minnows for dinner, and they'd hide under a stump i had in the tank. just a big enough gap for the minnow to get under it. well you could see this little monster gar eyeball them, and figure out how he was going to attack. absolutely not a reaction feeder, he'd make a plan how to get them. he'd slide his snout in the gap moving in maybe an inch every couple of minutes. so slowly he could get his nose right next to the minnow without spooking it, then bam, all she wrote. i dont know if he could do math, but he could sure formulate a plan.

Edited April 12, 2022 by lefty o

[Hobbit]

On 4/11/2022 at 8:41 PM, Widgets said:

ran across this interesting article. 

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/scientists-teach-fish-to-do-basic-math/

I got worried when I saw the article was posted on April 1… but thankfully the study was posted on March 31. 😅

[saphbettas]

Oh wow, these fish are better at math than I will ever be.