« It’s absolute rubbish, » says Warbuton. « There’s been a lot of work done over the last 15 years on learning and memory in fish and it has been found that fish are quite sophisticated.
Fish can remember prey types for months; they can learn to avoid predators after being attacked once and they retain this memory for several months. »
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down…
It’s not natural to kill weaker than you because you can. If it was like that, you wouldn’t dare letting your kids out. Or your grandma. Or your friend in a wheelchair. Or your wife (or not without a scarf hiding her face). Or yourself? You don’t want to live in a world where dogs eat dogs, and where the stronger wins. So, maybe you could decide to not behave that way?
A nice and true story to read… If you read a recent front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in […]