TIL that 'Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors, and sounds'

lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 14 days ago

TIL that 'Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors, and sounds'

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 14 days ago

Myths like this have always made me kinda angry. Anybody that has owned fish for more than a few days could easily say that this isn’t true at all.

But aside from that - animals simply wouldn’t exist if they were that stupid. The world is a dangerous place, especially underwater. Not having even basic memory and pattern recognition would be a one-way flight to extinction.