So much for saying that goldfish have a thee-second memory-span. The can also recognize people. (Wikipedia)

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    Myths like this have always made me kinda angry. Anybody that has owned fish for more than a few days could easily say that this isn’t true at all.

    But aside from that - animals simply wouldn’t exist if they were that stupid. The world is a dangerous place, especially underwater. Not having even basic memory and pattern recognition would be a one-way flight to extinction.

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      Even jellyfish can learn to spot and dodge obstacles, and they literally don’t have a brain.

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      Yeah, always felt like that this kind of myth is rather indicative of the intelligence of whoever actually believes it. Alas, most people probably don’t think about whether it actually makes sense…