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[vgnwtch]

Just because they swim, doesn't mean they're dim

• Patrick Barkham
• The Guardian,
• Wednesday February 27 2008

You can have a fish face, drink like a fish and be a fish out of water, but you're never as smart as a fish. Those scales should fall from our eyes. Our water-

Comments

[helen4morrissey]

I've just sent it to my pesky pesce mother. Thanks!

[vgnwtch]

Any time :) I'm busy compiling articles on animal intelligence, culture, and emotion from the tags here, myself.

[vegetus]

Have you seen the latest National Geographic? Nice article on animal intelligence...

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

(Thanks for the article BTW- I'm always on the look out for interesting fish culture/intelligence stories)

[tin_foil_hat]

Ooh, thanks for that. Very interesting.

[madam_midnight]

Fish are so cool <3

[ohyourgod]

My dad used to have a pet grouper that would swim upside down at the surface of the water so that my dad could pet his belly. My dad does tell tall tales, but my very honest mother corroborated the story.

[vgnwtch]

Well, you know about tickling trout, right? It's sad that the fish's natural reaction to being stroked leads to it being caught. It does show, though, that they're as susceptible to being blissed out as the rest of us.