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Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins
flergum writes "While dolphins may have big brains, laboratory rats and goldfish can outwit them. It appears that the large brains are a function of their environment rather than intelligence. From the article: 'Dolphins have a superabundance of glia and very few neurons... The dolphin's brain is not made for information processing it is designed to counter the thermal challenges of being a mammal in water.' I guess this means that the Navy will start recruiting and training goldfish for those mine search and destroy missions."
...but don't goldfish only have a 3 second memory?
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
And thank us for all the fish? Surely goldfish don't eat themselves.
I doubt it. I think this is just exactly what the dolphins want us to think. Perhaps they are hoping that we'll leave them alone if we think they're all idiots and they can get back to the heavy schedule of light swimming and intricate whistling they had planned.
.. er.... wait.. a dolphin just called me and asked how long I could hold my breath. I think this worries me...
Well I'm on to you, dolphins! I'm putting the word out! I know you're smarter than goldfish and
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Is a person that can figure out how to train an animal with a 3 second attention span:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bt6K521o3Y
FTA: "If you don't put a lid on top of the bowl a goldfish it will eventually jump out to enlarge the environment it is living in,"
Truly an astounding display of cognition.
So long, and thanks for all the flakes
Summation 2
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28315
So as you can see, Douglas Adams was right all along!Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of.
I for one welcome our new Goldfish Overlords
. o o O ( Where are all the giant-brained goldfish? )
I'd take an octopus any day of the week! Not only are they excellent problem solvers, they give good massages.
Does that make the fly smarter than me?
Who won?
I guess a rat brain in a pilot's uniform doesn't pick up as much skirt though.
No, but I'd hazard that a rat brain in a rat picks up a fair bit of tail.
KFG
Dolphins are also not so intelligent on land.
I'm quite sure goldfish would be equaly heroic, if they only got the opportunity!
I, for one, defy our would-be dolphin overlords!
' I guess this means that the Navy will start recruiting and training goldfish for those mine search and destroy missions."
Nope, in the navy, neurons are not mandatory.
In future news two sequels to Finding Nemo will come out "Recruiting Nemo" and "Training Nemo".
"To be is to do." --Socrates
"To do is to be." -- Aristotle
"Do-Be-Do-Be-Do..." --Sinatra
#23: Delude humans. Check.
:-)
You guys have obviously already forgotten about the mice then?
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So goldfish are able to jump out of their bowls... but what we really need to know in order to sort this out is can they run Linux?
People dumber than fish have been known to become presidents....
eTrade SUCKS
The only comparable goldfish dish is too much like Whitebait.
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It started out sounding good, somewhere in the middle I started thinking he was full of shit. By the end, he was flaimbaiting dolphins. "Well if you dolphins were so fucking smart, you wouldn't be dying in tuna nets, now would you?! You fucking idiot dolphins!"
I think a dolphin stole his girlfriend.
Oh come on, you can't possibly believe this bullshit.
He's a dolphin, he'll believe whatever the govt tells him.
Now, if he were a goldfish ...
Bart and Lisa are doing some recycling of those plastic ring things that hold six-packs of beer together.
Lisa: And, you have to cut these up first. Otherwise, animals get caught in them.
Bart: Only the stupid ones.
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