Fish photographed using tools for first time

I have owned some pretty smart goldfish over the years, this doesn't really surprise me.

That would explain the underwater pyramid in Japan, are there any blackspot tuskfish (Choerodon schoenleinii) in Japanese waters? http://unmyst3.blogspot.com/2009/01/underwater-pyramid-in-japan.html For many people arguing it's natural, wasn't man made, it must have been fish made. :innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :devil: :devil: :devil:

Well, if monkeys can use sticks to get ants out of their holes - why not fish use 'tools' to do the same? I mean, fish were the first to develope skills of breathing air and walking land........

What can I say? History repeats itself.

Let them make a pizza...then I will be impressed.

Now I know what to get my goldfish for his birthday. A jack hammer, right! I had a few betas and participated in this one day. I wrote it up and sent it to Oxford since they were doing cognitive studies on birds and other animals. It was an amazing moment of bonding between fish and man: *As how Howard Swayze or Howard Cosell would say it* For: general.office@zoo.ox.ac.uk, graduate.office@zoo.ox.ac.uk Dear sir; I wish to relate a very interesting experience that might indicate a worthwhile investigation of the cognitive abilities of beta* fish. Having accidentally killed my pet beta fish, Purp... [More]

Neat story, encouraged. I reiterate: fish are smarter than most people think. They are also rather playful as anyone who has ever had loaches knows. I love those little guys. I've got a tank of them. They are a never-ending joy to watch.

Yeah, they were plenty of fun and work. LOL! I was rather disappointed in not being able to leash train either of them, the squirrel cage was a worthless purchase, too and they wouldn't come when I called them! But they were good company. I noticed both of them would get on a perfect horizontal level with my eyes. If I put my head up a little higher--across the room--they would wiggle up to that height. One could use them as a level! The first one I trained to locate food he missed by looking at where my finger was, on the opposite side from him and in his line of sight to my finger. They also... [More]

I don't know if you can call this tool-use. If the fish had smacked a stone on the clam, then yes. It's the same thing, actually, once you think about it.

Fish are adept at using rocks as tools, and a researcher has the video to prove it. The footage, shot in Palau and described in the journal Coral Reefs, is the first ever to show a fish using a tool. http://news.discovery.com/animals/fish-uses-tool-110929.html