Fish much smarter than we imagined

Malcolm the tosspot wrote:
: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:33:25 GMT, Robb Nunya
: ::: Who are these wallies that give these other wallies all this money
::: of ours to spend on pointless bloody work ?
:::
::: Richard
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:: They're known as "Our elected representatives"
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:: Sad isn't it?
:
: No. It's what the majority of us want, the public, we do not like
: animal abuse.

but by your logic, you are abusing animals now, by using electricity you are
polluting, or does that not count?

: You may well feel it OK to abuse animals in your cozy
: little world, we don't, the majority rules.

you do not represent the public, you are a minority, which is why your still
a 'movement' and not recieving large injections of cash from the government
as angling societies and waterways are.
Also cash from Camelot, and lots of it too!! (woo-hoo!)
:
: Make the most of it while you can, it'll not last. If your conscience
: doesn't prick you, society will force you.

you are not representative of society neither, you are a 'movement' (and a
pretty ****poor one at that)

society will have to force the government, who are putting millions into
angling, to ditch it first, which will still not stop it anyway as there's
an estimated four million anglers in the uk, more than who are actively
involved with :
Football
cricket
rugby (union and league)
and horseracing, all combined, pretty nifty eh?

:
: Simple really.
:
: If you really must fish, why not use magnetic fish in a bowl, sure
: even you would have the mentality to work it out eventually?
:

they dont bleed enough.

BTW why did you have to have your own personal thread?
why not just tack it onto John's little tantrum?

In article m,
URL:mailto:@.MISSING-HOST-NAME. wrote:

No. It's what the majority of us want, the public, we do not like
animal abuse. You may well feel it OK to abuse animals in your cozy
little world, we don't, the majority rules.

Pete,
On a fishing ng trolling has a different meaning. Google back to the days
you called yourself Mbongo if you want to review the arguments.

Cheerio,

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In article , Phil.L
wrote:

BTW why did you have to have your own personal thread?
why not just tack it onto John's little tantrum?

Pete is pulling his old trick, atm he is posting as , Malcolm and John,
probably others too. No one else will agree with him.

Cheerio,

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"John" wrote in message
s.com...
Fish much smarter than we imagined

they can't be that smart if I can catch them!

Bill

John wrote in message ws.com...
Fish much smarter than we imagined

LUCY BANNERMAN October 02 2003


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FIRST they dismissed the three-second memory as a goldfish myth. Now
scientists say that as well as being brain food for us, fish use their
brains to find food themselves.

Research by Phil Gee, a psychologist from Plymouth University, has
shown that fish may not be the dunces of the food chain after all.
In a three-month experiment, his research team found they could train
goldfish to collect food at certain times of the day. Fish were taught
to nudge a lever that released food into their bowls. According to the
findings, the goldfish learned to push the lever when they were
hungry.

Over time, researchers adjusted the lever, reducing the availability
of food until it was dispensed for just one hour every day.
The scientists claim that as the fish adapted to their new routine
they became more attentive to the lever as feeding hour approached.
Rather than having a mere three-second memory, Mr Gee said the
experiment revealed that the aquatic brain knows when it is lunchtime.
He said: "The fish worked out that if they hit the lever around that
time, they would get food. Their activity around the lever increased
enormously just before the set hour when their food was dispensed. But
then, if no food came out, they stopped pressing the lever when the
hour was up.

snip

Obviously, the fish were cheating. Probably had pocket watches.