fearlessfisch
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I have always thought this about my rams. I love the picture with the article: a coupla fish clearly sizing each other up.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16796139/
Freshwater chichlids have reasoning capacity of 4- or 5-year-old child
By Robin Lloyd
Senior Editor
Updated: 8:49 p.m. CT Jan 24, 2007
Fish have the reasoning capacity of a 4- or 5-year-old child when it comes to figuring out who among their peers is "top dog," new research shows.
Stanford University scientists made the discovery — said to be the first demonstration that fish can use logical reasoning to figure out their social pecking order — by studying fights among small, highly territorial, spiny-finned fish called cichlids, common in freshwater in tropical Africa, including in Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16796139/
Freshwater chichlids have reasoning capacity of 4- or 5-year-old child
By Robin Lloyd
Senior Editor
Updated: 8:49 p.m. CT Jan 24, 2007
Fish have the reasoning capacity of a 4- or 5-year-old child when it comes to figuring out who among their peers is "top dog," new research shows.
Stanford University scientists made the discovery — said to be the first demonstration that fish can use logical reasoning to figure out their social pecking order — by studying fights among small, highly territorial, spiny-finned fish called cichlids, common in freshwater in tropical Africa, including in Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
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