Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 20, 2006 @06:46PM from the flying-in-the-face-of-popular-opinion dept.

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."

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Goldfish Synchronised Swimming. by GrpA · 2006-08-20 20:38 · Score: 1, Redundant

After seeing this video, I certainly changed my opinion of goldfish, although I don't know if it's real.

http://whatthepets.blogspot.com/2006/01/synchroniz ed-swimming-goldfish.html

However it did remind me of "Skinner" by Neal Asher and his comments on dolphins.

GrpA

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