slleipnir
05-16-2004, 10:07 PM
I was watching this show tonight, it was called Mythbusters or something. Anyway, they guys were talking about a myth stating that goldfish only have a memory of 3 seconds, and so keeping them in small bowls is fine as once they swim around once (or around 3 seconds) it has already forgotten the first trip.
So these guys were out to prove whether or not goldfish have 3 seconds of memory, or more. They each got a big tank of 5 fish. They decided to put a simple maze for the fish to learn and swim threw to get their food. One guy puts bright red squares with holes in them. I guess after spending some time teaching the fish to swim threw them, they put it to the test. They had like 4 of these red hole things in a row, and food at the other end. The fish swam threw and found the food. They did it pretty quick, with pretty much no turning backwards. I thought it was really neat, but is it possible the fish could smell the food and were just swimming to it? I was thinking about that, but the guy with the other tank - his fish never made it haha XD (he didn't use colorful holes though) pretty cool, huh? I thought so anyway hehe.
So these guys were out to prove whether or not goldfish have 3 seconds of memory, or more. They each got a big tank of 5 fish. They decided to put a simple maze for the fish to learn and swim threw to get their food. One guy puts bright red squares with holes in them. I guess after spending some time teaching the fish to swim threw them, they put it to the test. They had like 4 of these red hole things in a row, and food at the other end. The fish swam threw and found the food. They did it pretty quick, with pretty much no turning backwards. I thought it was really neat, but is it possible the fish could smell the food and were just swimming to it? I was thinking about that, but the guy with the other tank - his fish never made it haha XD (he didn't use colorful holes though) pretty cool, huh? I thought so anyway hehe.