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Finding food

COMPILED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN

Photo:S_Siva Saravanan.

Memorable: Give food, will remember.

A 15-year-old South Australian school student has busted the myth that goldfish have a three-second memory. Rory Stokes, from the Australian Science and Mathematics School in Adelaide, conducted an experiment to test the commonly held theory that gol dfish have short memory spans. He was also keen to open people’s minds to the cruelty of keeping fish in small tanks. “We are told that a goldfish has a memory span of less than three seconds and that no matter how small its tank is, it will always discover new places and objects,” he said. Rory’s experiment involved teaching a small group of fish to swim to a beacon by establishing a memory connection between the beacon and food.

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