We’ve been working with and keeping fish pretty much all of our lives, and many of you have long, personal histories with diverse groups of fish. As aquarists we are familiar with the different ways our fish can demonstrate a range of intelligence but we’re so close to the question, it’s hard to really know how ‘smart’ fish really are.
Being cold-blooded and scaly we kind of assume that warm blooded vertebrates are probably, generally smarter than fish but a body of work has been growing that shows that’s not always the case. Many fish have complex social structure and interactions, we know that groupers will hunt with moray eels & octopus, and Tusk fish are well known touse tools to open up prey项目。
事实证明,这些行为以及各种物种的认知和学习测试不仅表明某些物种很聪明,而且在许多情况下,它们似乎表现出色betterthan birds, mammals and even some primate at some of the tests. We’ve always known that fish are smarter than most people give them credit for, but it’s actually quite a pleasant surprise to discover that are cold-blooded aquarium friends actually are smarter than evenwegave them credit for.