A lot of people out there seem to feel that fish are not the cleverest of animals out there in the world. Well look at the great salmon run, the ability to stick together to avoid attack, some may call this natural instinct but others clever wit. I believe it is the latter of these two and piece of research has just been released sating that tropical fish are in fact a lot smarter than you might first think.
With this I am not talking about the average fish that you will find in your aquarium fish tank swimming around in theaquarium plants. I am talking about some of the fish that can be found in French Polynesia.
It would seem that one of the key things that makes us human beings is the fact that we can think ahead and react to eachother. So if you like, the whole phrase scratch my back and I will scratch yours comes into it. Well now it would seem a recent study has announced that certain types of tropical fish can now do the same.
The cleaner fish are the main ones when it comes to this and they are the ones that of course clean other species of fish, well it would seem that some of these take a small nip at the ones they are cleaning, this means the next time they see them they know the partnership is there. The bigger fish then look out for the smaller ones in return for them cleaning them.
So although you are not likely to see this kind of thing in your tropical tank it is still possible in the world of fish so it would seem that they are a lot cleverer than people first think they are.
So this is just a bit of proof to say that animals do have the qualities of humans.
So there you have it, there are just some of the things that these types of creatures did that I bet you did not know.