2023-12-12 15:01:51
Why do we underestimate the intelligence of fish? Ingenious, marine engineers, excellent navigators, these kings of camouflage also have memories. Far from being dumb like carp, they never stop communicating with each other…
Why do we systematically underestimate their cognitive abilities? Why do we say we are dumb as a carp? Or have the memory of a goldfish? While the researchers who study them show us exactly the opposite: the ingenuity of these marine engineers, excellent navigators, kings of camouflage who communicate with each other in what is anything but the world of silence… and who also have a sacred memory of places and even faces…
With Bill Francois physicist, passionate about marine biology for his work The geniuses of the seas, when marine animals defy science published by Flammarion
Eric Parmentierbiologist fish vocalization specialist duplex from Liège
#fish #awesome