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Can we get inside animal minds ?

Can we get inside animal minds ?. WHY FISH ARE SMARTER THAN YOU THINK. Dr Culum Brown Behaviour, Evolution & Ecology of Fishes. http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/dept/centres/beef/beef.html. www.geocities.com/culumbrown. Bad Press. Goldfish have a 3 second memory. Lower. Inferior. Primitive.

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Can we get inside animal minds ?

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  1. Can we get inside animal minds? WHY FISH ARE SMARTER THAN YOU THINK Dr Culum Brown Behaviour, Evolution & Ecology of Fishes http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/dept/centres/beef/beef.html www.geocities.com/culumbrown

  2. Bad Press • Goldfish have a 3 second memory

  3. Lower Inferior Primitive Flexible Superior Advanced Higher Increasing Intelligence Old view Fixed

  4. Modern view

  5. No brain is structurally simple Even a bee brain has ca 1 million inter-connected neurons!

  6. There are 28,500 described species of fish

  7. Fish diversity • Fishes have been on earth for over 400 million years • They are hugely diverse in both body form and behaviour Desert Goby

  8. Fish Perception • What do fish see • What do they taste • What do they hear • What do they feel

  9. The underwater world • Light and Fish Vision

  10. Shallow waters

  11. Visual pigments in M. maccullochi Red Red Yellow UV

  12. Deep water fishes

  13. The underwater world • Odours and Fish Smell/taste

  14. Odours and Fish Smell / Taste

  15. The underwater world • Sound and Fish Hearing

  16. The underwater world • Electricity and electroreception

  17. Do fish feel pain ?

  18. Do fish feel pain ? Human brain Fish brain

  19. Incredible fish facts • Fish memory • Complex social structure • Fish culture • Fish cooperation • Machiavellian manipulation • Fish that build houses • Fish that use tools

  20. Learning Random

  21. Long term memory

  22. Spatial memory

  23. Social learning

  24. Proportion of the population using the green door Fishy Culture

  25. Living in complex social groups

  26. Fish Fight

  27. Cooperation & Reconciliation

  28. Cooperation & Reconciliation

  29. House building Jawfish Rockmover wrasse

  30. Tool use

  31. Have good memories • Live in complex social groups • Can identify individuals • Learn from one another • Have stable cultural traditions • Cooperate with one another • Show machiavallian intelligence • Build complex houses • Use tools

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