Comments on: Goldfish Synchronized Swimming.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:22:47 +0000

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!

By: Aramax

Aramax — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:42:55 +0000

Make them jump in a ring of fire now.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:35:33 +0000

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

By: matt

matt — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:30:26 +0000

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

By: SnakeEyes

SnakeEyes — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:20:30 +0000

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.

By: Hooty

Hooty — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:34:55 +0000

(from YT)

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

By: Hooty

Hooty — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:31:18 +0000

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.

By: Hooty

Hooty — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:28:41 +0000

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.