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- From: maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier)
- Subject: Re: Fish intelligence
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- Organization: Andrews University
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:55:01 GMT
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- >The trigger learned to recognize me, and would always
- >rise to the surface whenever I walked into the room, seemingly expecting a
- >handout. The same fish also learned to recognize my father(who often helped
- >with water changes , tank reorganizations and other things that scare fish),
- >and would duck under a coral when my father so much as looked into the tank
- >(well before he actually stuck a hand in). The fish was seemingly indifferent
- >to other people.
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- The same thing happened with my mother's oscar. It shies away from me
- and my father because we clean the tank, and it likes her, because she
- feeds it.
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