Goldfish who can drive: why scientists taught fish to navigate a watery tank on wheels
by Natalie Parletta from on (#5TT5E)
Israeli researchers say their fish - named after characters from Pride and Prejudice - reveal navigation is a universal ability
It might be an imaginary character straight out of a Dr Seuss book: The goldfish who could drive. But it's real. Incredibly, Israeli researchers created a robotic car and report that they taught six fish - named after characters from Pride and Prejudice - to navigate it on land.
It's all in the name of science, of course. The team had been dreaming up ways to test fish navigation for a while, according to Shachar Givon from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, first author of a study published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research.
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