Playing basketball with your goldfish?
Dr Dean Pomerleau has managed to teach his two year old goldfish Comet to play football, basketball, push a rugby ball over a set of posts, play fetch with a hoop, limbo dance under a bar, and zigzag through a series of poles.
Dr Dean Pomerleau used positive reinforcement to teach the fish. Positive reinforcement has since long been used to train dolphins and other marine mammals. “With the correct tools and the basic promise of a food reward, fish can very quickly learn complex tricks - like the limbo, zigzag or playing fetch” says the fish trainer to The Sun.
You can read the whole story in Jenny Eagle’s article in The Sun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1126255.ece
Hello,
Dr. Dean here. Yes - it is true. Our fish friends can be taught just like dolphins and other marine mammals. To learn more about what fish can learn, visit our website, or join our fish training discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/fish-school-forum
Dr. Dean Pomerleau
Founder & Chief Fish Trainer
Fish School, Inc.
Comment by Dr. Dean Pomerleau — June 6, 2008 @ 10:08 am
Hi
Thanks for dropping by. Good luck with your future research.
Comment by William — June 6, 2008 @ 11:14 am
[…] Pomerleau who train fish to do tricks. I posted about her work about a week ago in the post “Playing basketball with your goldfish?” and he has been kind enough to answer a few questions about his work and how to train fish. […]
Pingback by Interview with Dr Dean Pomerleau — June 12, 2008 @ 7:53 am
I have gold fish but i want to train my fish with ur opinion please help me to make my fish more strong ,powerful and want to make them playable .
Comment by Yus — July 19, 2008 @ 1:43 am