Posted on 01/05/2022 2:12:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux
After a long day at work, the modern goldfish no longer has to take public transportation home—it can drive via a fish-operated vehicle (FOV), according to new research published in Behavioural Brain Research.
Documented in a report published in the February 2022 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, set out to unpack how well goldfish can navigate terrestrial environments when tasked with the right tools. They created a small camera-equipped fish tank on wheels, which they call an FOV, and put six goldfish in it, one at a time.
Over a number of 30-minute sessions, they pointed the device toward a visual target and rewarded the fish with food each time they reached it, recorded the number of times the fish hit the target, how long it took, and how far the fish traveled along the way. Incredibly, the goldfish seemingly took to their new ability to drive on land.
Videos of these sessions shared by study co-author Ronen Segev went viral on Twitter on Monday, and were met with an array of dad jokes about fish learning to drive. This is not the first study to capture “fish-machine interactions,” the paper notes, but to Segev, the work supports broader understanding of how species move through environments not meant for them.
“These results demonstrate that the goldfish was able to transfer to a wholly different terrestrial environment and navigate successfully,” Segev said in his Twitter thread.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a FOV . . . ? Hmm.
Not to mention, God didn’t expressly forbid fish from driving. Not that they could learn this on their own . . . their memory still lasts about three seconds . . .
And you know that how?
He was a goldfish in a previous life, but he only remembered three seconds of it.
Don’t give PETA any fodder for attacks, now.
JFTR, liberal science bastions have confirmed (claimed) that goldfish memory can last for several months. But then again, they also say that they can feel and remember pain after years of saying that they cannot feel pain (they declared it “official” back in 2018) . . .
Fish won’t need to remember if we give them access to the internet. They can just look it up...the way kids do today.
We’re still stuck in the 1990s as far as URLs go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Tension_%28short_story%29
and navigate successfully
It don’t mean spit if they can’t get to the Walmart and back.
Not clicking on Vice....
It’s not amazing that goldfish can navigate on land when equipped with all the necessary tools and in the right environment for them to survive. Let’s not forget that intelligence guided the entire process. It did not happen without supernatural intervention as far as the fish are concerned.
Let me know when the goldfish accomplish this feat without any outside help. Then maybe they can claim there is no God.
Is that like reverse virtue signaling?;-)
If only Fauxi had stuck with fish.
For those who are afraid of self-driving Teslas there will soon be a goldfish option.
Seems their schools are more advanced than those created
on land. Young students are actually taught something
worthwhile and move on to greater accomplishments.
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