Turns out fish are self aware and way smarter than once thought.
So maybe they’re critiquing your masturbation technique.
Just hanging with the boys
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
(Sorry if you already know all this, I’m just excited about this and wanna share with people reading through comments)
Its still unclear how much that reflects on fish broadly, and the researcher has actually expressed a belief that many animals could be much smarter than we have assumed because our experimental design was inadequate
In their research they chose the color red for the mark on the fish (the mirror test and some other tests used for assessing animal intelligence requires a mark be put on the animal)- the researcher chose red because the parasites they have exposure to are red (clearner wrasse are fish that work in complex social groups to clean parasites off larger fish. I’m not sure if they might be impacted by red parasites themseleves or if its the color they look for when cleaning other fish, or both).
When later tested with green they acted as if the mark wasn’t there, so the researcher feels theres a chance that tests failed to adequately take into account the way animals experience the world and may not have designed tests in line with what information would be ecologically significant to them. Had he not thought carefully about it and picked another color the test would have shown exactly what people expected of fish- that theyre not that smart
This was a super cool video covering the progression of research https://youtu.be/s_aNH4hXz8I. For a long time his results were dismissed so he just kept writing papers and collecting more evidence
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
You are delightful, and I really appreciate you, and this comment of yours. I didn’t know about this, but you’ve piqued my interest enough that I’m going to go read more about it now. It’s super cool!
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Please never apologize for sharing like this, it is what makes us human and it is always a delight to share in the joy of sharing and learning.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Who are they to judge me, they can’t even do it
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imagine seeing a bird do a really shitty job of flying and being mad it’s wasting its gift.
Aeao@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well they can masturbate dolphins. You haven’t ripped the head off anything
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Well how about they show me how it’s done before criticising
slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
With all of these animals being smarter and more aware than we thought, there are fewer and fewer places to safely crank it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Okay this has nothing to do with fish and everything to do with the mirror test. What does it say about you when you know you’ve acquired a doppelganger and you see a photograph and can’t tell if it’s you or the doppel in the photo because it was at the event where you met your doppel and that was 20 years ago
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh that’s just Kyle, he’s from another dimension, he likes to fuck with people. Kind of an asshole.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have a goldfish. Our toddler will put her toys around the outside of the aquarium. Every few days she’ll swap them out. The fish will swim down and look at each one. They both get something out of this arrangement.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
wow nemo’s graphics really didn’t age well
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No? I think it still looks fine. I think Pixar did pretty well in choosing what types of things they could get away with animating at the time with their early movies.
vogi@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
the unterwater parts arent even the worst, wait till you see the human renders. they scared me for life even back then.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 weeks ago
Watching their favorite show?
rugburn@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
I used to have gold barbs that would watch TV, I assume the motion of it was more interesting than the same old plants and driftwood in their tank
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This is why even though I love aquariums, I don’t think I could have one. Like I get that the purpose of the image is to show that they have a much larger space than most other fish kept in aquariums, and that’s a much bigger tank than most people have, but that still doesn’t seem like a lot of room to live their entire life in. It just makes me sad to think about it.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’ve had aquariums on and off through the decades. My last one was a 150 L tank, very well planted, and three small schools, zebras, lneons and guppies. All of them keep to small areas in the wild, and see to be fine in that sort of surroundings. Also, schools are mesmerizing. A Japanese aquarist, Takashi Amano was famous for designing huge aquariums, with massive forests, and just a few fish.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you just made me want to get fish again. i love tetras but i was a kid. i knew shit about fish so i couldn’t keep them alive. by the time i was old enough to properly care for a fish we had our Oscar and those tetras would have just been Brunch. I don’t think we had a fish named Brunch.
MrSusan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think I’ve actually seen one of his aquariums in Lisbon, it was beautiful.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We had a very well cared for Oscar. He was a smart fish. He really only liked to eat tails. He was in a hundred gallon tank with just a few other fish besides his pet feeder halfgoldfish he refused to finish eating (every time he’d refuse to eat a goldfish, it got named after a meal or a food and became part of the fish family)
The bastard still tried to commit suicide like once a month. We were just lucky someone was usually home because I know what the cats wanted to do. I don’t know what the damn fish wanted but he’d jump out of the tank regularly.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Genuine question? Does that feeling extended to meat animals in mega farms?
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yes? And it also applies to people trapped in tiny apartments or shitty circumstances due to capitalism, but I don’t have the power to change any of those things. I can however not buy an aquarium…
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Cuddlefish
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s like King of The Hill but in a tank.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
tank hill
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn it I heard the theme song in my head
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
They’re just checking out the monkey in the zoo.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
incoming barbershop quintet
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Why was the turtle explosive? And why was a guy standing on it?
SSETranquility@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hahah!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They really look like they have a direct view into the kitchen and like you are an amateur sushi chef.
BarticusR@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OH SHIT! It’s Mr Creosote!
NABDad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I had to scroll way too far to find this comment.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why does this screenshot have video static?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Radioactive goldfish
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
is this what they mean when they talk about x-ray fish
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Your wife has asked them to keep an eye on you
X@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I’m fine with an eye, but ten’s overkill
adarza@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
you watch them. why can’t they watch you?
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Too loud maybe
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep, definitely not enough room. That’s it.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does the pet store offer returns?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“These are defective, are they still under warranty?”
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Turn them off, then on again. That might resolve the problems.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Image
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mhm.
xSikes@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Yup