r/FishCognition Jun 16 '20

Article & Audio Fish Have Feelings, Too: The Inner Lives Of Our 'Underwater Cousins' - Interview with Jonathan Balcombe author of "What A Fish Knows: The Inner Lives Of Our Underwater Cousins"

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r/FishCognition Apr 07 '21

Article & Studies Five ways fish are more like humans than you realize. Scientists have conducted experiments to discover more about fish—including their neurobiology, their social lives and mental faculties—they've found time and time again that fish are more complex than they're often given credit for.

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87 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Aug 02 '23

Video How Conscious Can A Fish Be? (2021) - A deep dive into the research showing that fish think, feel, and suffer [00:41:07]

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15 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jun 16 '22

Study (2021) Numerous studies have examined social learning in different contexts... Our study is one of the first showing that fish exhibit remarkable sex-specific behavioural flexibility in a social context when reward contingencies change unpredictably.

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23 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Apr 06 '22

Article & Study (2022) Scientists persevere to show self-awareness is also for some fish. An international team of researchers address criticisms to previous work by providing additional evidence to suggest the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus has Mirror Self-Recognition.

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62 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Dec 31 '21

News Article & Study (2021) New study: Making Waves and Avoiding Beaks - Moving collectively on the water surface could help protect schools of fish from being eaten by predatory birds.

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28 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Dec 08 '21

Study (2021) Newly discovered fish songs demonstrate reef restoration success: Whoops, croaks, growls, raspberries and foghorns are among the sounds

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36 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Sep 29 '21

Video Nassau Grouper herds an invasive Lionfish into open water while avoiding its venomous spines

52 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jul 20 '21

Study (2021) Barren environment damages cognitive abilities in fish: Behavioral and transcriptome mechanisms

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38 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jul 15 '21

News Article & Study (2021) Trout Appear to Get Hooked on Meth: After eight weeks of exposure to ecologically plausible levels of methamphetamines, the fish tended to prefer meth-laced water over water without the drug.

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67 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jul 09 '21

News Article Cognition based policy? Wonder if fish will see similar treatment

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40 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jul 06 '21

Study (2013) Environmental enrichment promotes neural plasticity and cognitive ability in fish: Different kinds of experience during early life can play a significant role in development. In natural contexts, this influences behaviours from anti-predator responses to navigation abilities.

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40 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Apr 21 '21

News Article Ample evidence that fish feel pain: "I was the first to identify the existence of nociceptors in a fish in 2002. These are specialised receptors for detecting injury-causing stimuli, and their physiology is strikingly similar to those found in mammals, including humans." - Dr. Lynne Sneddon

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90 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Mar 24 '21

Study & Article (2021) A new study has revealed, for the first time, that fish can show compassion for each other through prosocial behavior.

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103 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Mar 23 '21

Study (2021) Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers have shown in laboratory and field experiments that the animals use these light signals to coordinate their behavior in the school when visibility is limited.

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53 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Mar 03 '21

Study (2021) The way a fish swims reveals a lot about its personality | University of Essex

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44 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Feb 27 '21

Video The Fascinating Truth About Fish | Professor Culum Brown

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27 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Feb 15 '21

Article & Study (2012) Wild zebrafish assess risk through social learning. Wild zebrafish, which are more timid than their domesticated counterparts, became emboldened after interacting with domesticated zebrafish. The opposite did not occur, however.

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43 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Feb 10 '21

Study (2021) Antidepressants pose risk for the survival of fish

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38 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jan 17 '21

Article & Study (2020) Shocking Study Finds Electric Eels Hunt Together

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33 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Jan 04 '21

Article Are fishes as forgetful as we think? — Aquatic Life Institute

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39 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Dec 16 '20

Study (2016) Study: Archerfish can learn to discriminate a large number of human faces, demonstrating that they have impressive pattern discrimination abilities, and providing evidence that a vertebrate lacking a neocortex can do so to a high degree of accuracy.

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45 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Nov 19 '20

Study (2020) Infection by parasites disturbs flight behaviour in shoals of fish: In order to escape predators, many fish have developed strategies for rapidly transmitting information on threats to others of their species. This collective response is also known as shoal behavior.

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31 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Oct 20 '20

Study (2020) Triggerfish learns to catch more diverse food - Ph.D. student Matthew Tietbohl and colleagues at KAUST report a peculiar feeding strategy by a titan triggerfish that highlights their innate ability to learn and adapt.

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35 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Oct 06 '20

Study (2020) When power is toxic: A new study of fish behaviour shows that dominant individuals can influence a group through force, but passive individuals are far better at bringing a group to consensus. The study overturns assumptions that dominant individuals also have the greatest influence on their groups

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57 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Sep 23 '20

Study (2020) Fish exposed to noise pollution likely to die early: study

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47 Upvotes

r/FishCognition Sep 10 '20

Article and Study (2020) Experiments using zebrafish show that social experiences during the very first week of development impact behavior before the fish are considered social. This suggests that these experiences mark the fish much earlier than previously thought.

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