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Goldfish Synchronized Swimming.

By Alex in Animal, Video Clips on Mar 26, 2007 at 11:00 am


Think you can teach your pet stupid tricks? How about teaching your goldfish how to synchronize swim? Check it out: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Lee!


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  1. Hooty
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 11:28 am

    My money says this is not at all real. For instance, watch how the fishes (side) fins flap in a machine-like manner. There's no randomness, the fish move and wiggle way too perfectly. Like someone posted on YT, probably uses magnets under the tank.

  2. Hooty
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 11:31 am

    All right, they might actually be real fish, but something else is going on. The table/tank set-up is suspicious. Maybe there are some kind of glass partitions in the water; something's up.

  3. Hooty
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 11:34 am

    (from YT)

    Fantesca:
    "I'm sure it hurt when they shoved the magnets down their throats, or the iron pellet or whatever."

  4. SnakeEyes
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    I've actually seen this done. I was at a shopping mall watching some fish in a tank, when some random chinese dude walked up and started wiggling his fingers. The fish all started to swim in sync. I figure it has something to do with "schooling", they see the wiggling and think its other fish and follow it.

  5. matt
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    but doesnt a goldfishes memory only last for 5 minutes then forgets everything it learns?

  6. aj
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    i'm pretty sure that's been shown to be b.s. matt

  7. Aramax
    Mar 26th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Make them jump in a ring of fire now.

    =D

  8. Daniel Kim
    Mar 27th, 2007 at 7:22 am

    My concern is that terrorists may use this technique to train goldfish to deliver bio-weapons to critical water supply points in the U.S.

    Something's got to be done!

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