Posted on 06/23/2014 8:53:08 AM PDT by PoloSec
Fish can feel pain and some have the ability to remember, including being able to recognize individual members of their species, according to a study by Australian researcher Culum Brown in the journal Animal Cognition.
In the study "Fish Intelligence, Sentience and Ethics," Brown looked at multiple studies on fish and their sensory abilities as compared to other vertebrates. He found that many species of fish have sophisticated senses of vision and smell, just like a mammals, and some have memories.
One experiment involved training fish to flee danger by swimming through a specific hole in a net. When the fish were reintroduced to the situation a year later, they remembered the hole and swam through it.
Fish not only remember individuals, Brown wrote, but can pass on "cultural traditions" to succeeding generations, such as where to find food. They also build partnerships with others, including with other species, to hunt for food and build nests by moving stones.
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He says the evidence suggest fish should be afforded the same animal rights protections as other species who feel pain.
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And, these people are paid to discover this? It amazes me that something so basic needs to have some dummy research this with taxpayers money.
And in another study (lobsters)it was no brain, no pain.
You can’t eat dirt, it’s not renewable.
” Good thing fetus’s don’t feel pain. “
Nerves only grow in about 1 second AFTER the fetus leaves the birth canal don’t you know....
“Hey look! Howard’s being eaten!”
Why are fish so thin?
Because they eat fish!
so can a fetus.
Good thing liberals love sushi so much, then.
And someone needs to tell the Pelicans.
Not really anarcho-primitivism in my opinion. I think it's a claw of Cultural Marxism.
Then they recognized when Jesus made more of them for the crowd to eat? Cool.
“Good bye sport fishing”, we can’t have cruelty to animals nor fish either. Just wait, it’s coming.
“Good thing fetus’s don’t feel pain.”
I read that as ‘Festus’ of Gunsmoke fame.
I was thinking...he may have acted dumb, but I’m sure the poor bastard could feel pain?
The fish feels pain, but the fetus doesn’t.
Maybe sport abortions should also be banned.
I swear, there is this one bass in a cove at El Salto that knows my Brylcream.
Have seen fish bitten in half by another fish, continue to swim about and eat. Fish do not feel pain.
Reminds me of a landscaping job in LA. A guy spent 800 dollars per fish to go in his fish pond about ten. Some transients came by that night and cooked and ate them on the spot.
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