Smartest Fish on Earth, Mormyridae, Seem To Talk Just Like Us

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[@LeeRaldar]

"I swim therefore I am". - A Mormyridae fish on the problem of conciousness.

[@ThomasJackPotter]

Stop 😂😂

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

@White Knight noooo 🥺

[@gunz2233]

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone". - Confuisedfish

[@justint.2858]

(After the hydro bomb is made) I do not know what weapons with which WW3 is fought with but WW4 with be fought with Fin and Jaws - Albert Fishburne

[@mrvn000]

Ohh man, you made it with that comment.

[@demolition3612]

Electric communication, as a natural language, this sounds alien

[@jaset362]

Plants and animals on our planet use many different ways to communicate. Electric communication is nothing unusual at all.

[@demolition3612]

@@jaset362 i mean, that if we came across an alien civilization this sounds like something we would encounter, rather than the traditional method of communication were used to.

[@jaset362]

@@demolition3612 I know what you mean. We discovered many ways of communications between living things here on the Earth (some of them really astonishing) but not all yet. World we all live in is extremely complex and contains vast ocean of information and in order to survive all living creatures developed the way of communication that suits them the best despite their biological limitations. Our world undergoes continuous changes .Whatever lives here has to be able to adjust to new changes or goes extinct. Other worlds can be completely different and based on different main components of environment. It may happen that communication with extraterrestrials may not be possible to establish at all. For example they may not notice our presence if they move 3600 times faster than us or we may not notice their presence if we are moving 3600 times faster than them. They could have live among us and we would never find out about it.

[@GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

What I want to know is whether this counts as telepathy. I've always questioned why telepathy wasn't evolved, it's basically just an internal wifi system so you can pick up wireless signals from other organisms, using it to communicate over a distance. This sounds just like a low level form of telepathy.

[@marktwaine9344]

why, you're doing it right now....

[@mikalmos369]

I have kept Elephant Nose's several times...they always interact with me and have a presence that very few fish have

[@luislicona386]

Fish: “What the hell is this?” Consiglieri fish: “It’s a Sicilian message” Fish: “But what does it say?” Consiglieri fish: “It means Luca Brassi sleeps with the humans.” **Ominous music**

[@MaskFaceStup1dP4nc4kes]

PFFFFT LOL

[@SEELE-ONE]

I was not expecting this XD

[@chickspt1877]

OH madon

[@carlodechosa4219]

Luca Bassi

[@simon20002]

Coral shoes instead of cement ayyy lmao

[@drunk3n_m0nk12]

Anytime I've ever seen one of these in an aquarium store they always stood out to me as having an extra level of intelligence. You see it quite often in saltwater fish but it always seemed more pronounced with them. I've always wanted to keep one but have never had the right tank setup for them to thrive.

[@cyc7lops]

These fish need two things, as mentioned in the video: 1) well oxygenated water; 2) high-energy food. Don't bring home this fish unless 1) you're committed to the type of tank maintenance that will ensure the water is always clean and well-oxygenated, and 2) you can provide a steady diet of live bloodworms (consider the availability of year-round supply, price, and refrigeration requirements for the worms, so that you're feeding the fish wholesome food). Don't forget to factor in your transportation costs in time/money to pick up worms all the time. I kept one of these fish in my general tank and provided high-protein food in pellet form, but these fish wanted bloodworms. I provided bloodworms occasionally, and most times the other fish were faster and gobbled them up before they hit the gravel (which the elephant nose generally doesn't do), so that when the lumbering elephant nose went poking around in the gravel, there wasn't much left. They seemed uninterested in the soft, small, high-protein pellets I provided. Unfortunately, the fish died, over 20 years ago, and I still feel guilty about it. If you can't provide a steady diet of live bloodworms, in large enough quantity so that a good amount sinks to the bottom to hide in the gravel where the elephant nose has a chance to get some, and handle all that goes with it, then forget about this fish. If anyone else has experience with this fish in an aquarium and knows of other foods on which it will thrive besides live bloodworms, please share.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Definitely only get them if you can get a big enough tank to have a bunch of them, since they are so social. It's cruel to isolate social animals, and the more intelligent they are, the more it tortures them.

[@drunk3n_m0nk12]

@@ANPC-pi9vu I have a 220 gallon but there would be too much competition for food with my datniodes, silver dollars, and birchirs since they're all voracious eaters.

[@BazIrvine]

Typical human ahhh look something really special let's take it out of it's natural environment and lock it up in a glass prison so we can gawk at it.

[@OmniversalInsect]

@@BazIrvine But I'm assuming you have nothing against something like dog domestication

[@justsumkid]

The fact that we started out with nonverbal communication with just our faces and demeanor and these fish already have a potential method of transferring information to one another using electrical signals makes it really astounding. If only they had the ability to use tools and breathe air without water, then there would be a fish revolution!

[@nightruler666]

*Catches fish* Fish:"Let me go you bi-pedal freak"

[@hereticpariah6_66]

Bi-pedal freak: _craps self, releases fish._

[@ElephantWhisperer222]

Bi-sexual freak*

[@rianantony]

Why is it calling me a pedal?

[@cobinasaur]

@@ElephantWhisperer222 That was very random but okay I guess.

[@Mate397]

"Understandable, have a nice day." - the bipedal freak.

[@jaccooccaj217]

They found these fish in lakes and rivers in Spain and Italy and their communication behaviour is different. They all talk at the same time and are not silent when another fish talks. They also use a lot of fin gestures when they talk. It is amazing.

[@CommunistBot]

Wow

[@sabsab878]

;)

[@pamala2112]

Anton: ". . . Fish Speech or Fish Language or whatever you wanna call it." Me: I wanna call it Fish Latin!

[@MrShanester117]

🤢🤮

[@robertolavieri3951]

Hello, wonderful fish

[@brendawilliams8062]

One big brain always trying to figure the other one.

[@richardzeitz54]

Thanks Anton Petrov! Any time I'm a little bored and want to be fascinated by something scientific, your channel is my go-to. I love how you identify fascinating subjects far out of your regular areas of expertise, such as the elephant fish. Keep up the good work sharing your fascination with the world!!!!!

[@ihcfn]

Mumbling to itself......holy crap I'm a fish!

[@Fozzedout]

Holy carp, I'm a fish!

[@azimaliff]

fuck, i can breathe underwater

[@poknatinpokkers5289]

@Andy Man i distinctly remember when i was 3-5 yrs old that i could breathe water. i would take it in the nose and it would hurt at first like wasabi hell but then id get used to it quickly then im just down there breathing pool water. wish i could still do it but as i grew older, i lost it. i dnt know what happened and i can't explain it. i swear if i knew more when i was that young, id study myself and sht

[@krukimoto6296]

@@poknatinpokkers5289 bruh what

[@likefire1617]

Obviously they haven't seen 'FINDING NEMO'..

[@PsychedelicMakai]

finally a real friend i can talk with

[@MonkeyMagick]

Douglas Adams would have loved this.

[@lizardlegend42]

"It turns out, humans were actually the *fourth* most intelligent species on planet earth. We apologise for our previous false information, but the dolphins were very determined to cover up this fact due to their preferred food source"

[@bobbygoestoabyss6624]

That was my first thought too 😁

[@peterlarkin762]

And now we talk to Zaphod's psychotherapist...: "Well, he's just this guy, you know."

[@notlessgrossman163]

Clownfish are plenty smart, but these are downright amazing. Maybe get an Ai to translate the language, I have a few questions for them

[@davidarundel6187]

All fish have a measure of intelligence & will come to those who ask, the right way.

[@PsychicPsychToad]

The electric eel is actually not an eel, it's in the same mormyid knifefish family seen here.

[@seankerr9158]

I’ll take the bait (🤦): what’s the right way?

[@notlessgrossman163]

@@PsychicPsychToad communication with electrical signals offers many possibilities of cognitive behavioral analysis

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

@@seankerr9158 you're so close to getting it...

[@SC-zq6cu]

This really sounds like something out of a HFY story where an alien abducts and studies humans and makes a report on them.

[@nintenx1235]

“Look at those humans, you think they speak like us?” “They sure do make a lot of noise don’t they, but who knows what goes on in their air breathing brains?” “HEY HUMANS!!! CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME!!!?? *STOP BANGING ON THE GLASS SERIOUSLY!!!* “

[@alexandermartinez1318]

That’s insane! These implications are huge!

[@jochemajendouz9271]

How did the world change when you found out about this?

[@paulb3436]

Fish aren't stupid. I had Koi that could distinguish footsteps. If they heard a stranger, they'd hide, if they heard me, they'd come out. They also enjoyed being petted. And it wasn't just Koi I found were actually pretty smart and affectionate.

[@TheStephaneAdam]

It's interesting how some verbal communication patterns seem to keep evolving in completely different species. Wonder what it says about basic brain structure amons species.

[@desmondchurch9630]

Birds, mammals (dolphins), us ect... Although I think I might be at the bottom of that tier list.

[@miospio]

@@desmondchurch9630 cephalopods

[@ecognitio9605]

Social Animals = Big brain needed for conmunication

[@ludlowworthington697]

Good point. It reminds me of the way very different creatures in water develop similar shapes (dolphins, fish). Maybe communication has its own fluid dynamics and best "shapes" for that.

[@Nobddy]

There really are only a few ways language could work. You need a noun and a verb to describe who and what, and that’s about it. “Where” and “when” are probably very helpful, too. The question of “why” is next level. I wonder if they ask “why?”.

[@jacobopstad5483]

Wow! This seems to suggest that complex communication could have developed before other important skills in humans too. What amazing fish!

[@Shaden0040]

They can also go extinct if they are over fished for the aquarium trade.

[@emilkarpo]

These fish in the aquarium trade are captive bred.

[@danfrakes7346]

They can’t be extinct if they are in everyone’s aquariums

[@inthemaze7441]

Yes, I had two of them in the 90's. They came from captive bread, not a river.

[@imperialofficer6185]

"Yes, this is one of the most common species of freshwater fish in Africa" "Yes it will emmideately go extinct after exactly six aquariumists that are interested in it catch one" environmentalists ffs

[@PaulZyCZ]

@@inthemaze7441 That's good then, I read it's near-impossible to breed them. So instead it's probably similar case to Altum Angelfish or SAE.

[@mo-s-]

Wait, does that mean I can learn "fish" as a language?

[@eeeguba432]

Yes but its like describing colors to a blind person, youd need a multimeter and a taser to even try

[@mo-s-]

@@eeeguba432 but you could create an alphabet using the electric patterns

[@Destan-jp5zu]

Anton, my friend this is fascinating! thanks for the vid.

[@desmondchurch9630]

What they said! /\

[@DakkaBert]

I would be willing to bet that electrical pollution from water pumps, power chords, smart meters, wifi etc results in the confusion of signals that sometimes happens to these very sensitive fish. Amazing creatures, thank you so much for the video, they are my new favorite fish!

[@benmeyers8278]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you Anton!

[@maxbrandt6]

This is fascinating, it's an intelligent fish that can actually talk.

[@jumboegg5845]

Well done Anton. One day people may appreciate that animals didn't stop evolving millions of years ago, and in fact have had many millions of years head start on us. They have complex languages, relationships, feelings, and live in perfect harmony with their natural environment. They know everything that needs to be known about their environment. Human evolution is just a blink of an eye in comparison. The classic example is the belief that the crocodile hasn't evolved for 200 million years or whatever. Does that really make sense? Is it possible that after many millions of years, animals still just wander around aimlessly and don't have excellent knowledge about how to live and thrive in their environment? Everyday I see wild animals enjoying themselves.

[@jlt131]

i love the variety of your videos! this was super interesting.

[@MegaObserver2010]

We had them in our former Pet Store. They were notorious for jumping out of even the smallest gap at the place where the 'Undergravel Filter Bubbler Tubes went in through the sliding glass top . One morning , on entering the fish section, one was laying in the middle of the floor ; white eyes and dried to the floor. As I grabbed it by the tail ,the entire one side of its skin ( scales ) stayed stuck on the floor. I had not done my sweep to extract any other dead fish - so , 'on the interim' I plopped the animal back into its tank. To my utter surprise, after i did my sweep and came around to the Elephant Nose Fish , he had fully recovered and lived on. Therefore : oxygen and water deprivation is seemingly a) survivable to this species and b) their intelligence in escaping was uncanny- this was only one of many similar escapes.

[@fizoblong9506]

1:25 ff So to communicate using pauses is a sign of intelligence. I have to tell this my wife.

[@catch-2321]

“They used to be simple creatures, descendants of a battered people that had taken to the sea. Their remote ancestors would have given such beings no chance of a sentient comeback, for they thought that technological advances were impossible in the fluid medium of the oceans. But the Fish disproved such predictions by founding one of the most advanced and most outrageously alien cultures of the entire human lineage. Fire, the cornerstone of industrial engineering, was almost impossible to sustain and use underwater. But the Fish simply choose another path when complex toolmaking proved impracticable. They began to breed their tools and machines for them. It had started long before the species was even intelligent. In the endless variety of life in the seas, the Fish always adopted and controlled the organisms that were useful in some way. Once domesticated, these creatures were willingly or unintentionally modified through artificial selection and conditioning. The process was slow, but once underway, its effects were formidable.”

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

Q

[@monnoo8221]

thank you so much, wonderful Anton, to bring us that story from this wonderful planet. Stunning. Marvelous

[@TacomaJak]

I think there must be something in Africa that helps brain development maybe… the rain

[@heybudgreatname]

Bless

[@mattilatvala4164]

EXTREMELY EASY to test if and what kind of info they are able to transmit. "There is something bad in that cave", or "There is good food in this cave", etc.

[@osmia]

I'm glad KZbin popped this up for me to watch. I'd never heard of this fish before. This is fascinating.

[@bjollnirbjordsen9795]

It's cool when an animal we usually think of as unintelligent like molluscs or fish end up being intelligent. I remember we had some kind of pufferfish in the hallway in high school, I liked to walk by his tank and say hello, and it would come up to the glass like it was excited to see a person. You can kind of see a mind looking back at you in their eyes.

[@AruwakEM]

Plot twist: you gain a +1 to your brain capacity permanently each time you eat that fish.

[@RokiMowntinHi]

....welcome to TCM ☹️ they actually believe that sh!t (re: tiger penis & shark fins).

[@Ghenesa]

I remember wanting this fish for aquarium...but they were really expensive and hard to maintain.

[@Kokorocodon]

Elephants are so smart that even their fish variation is smart.

[@lordawillo1019]

*Splash* "Oh hey Frank, they got you too huh?" "Oh yeah. What do you think theyre doing switching us between tanks?" "Oh I don't know. Hey you got dinner plans tomorrow?" "Nah..."

[@Aliandrin]

Video: "Sure, they're smart, buuut, they don't have tool use." Fish: 😡 Not fair! I don't have any hands!

[@arqmatheusgarcia]

Interesting! Here in Brazil we have a story tale in the rivers of the amazon region where a fish named "Boto" (actually, it's a mammal - practically a fresh water dolphing) seduces the women that walk near the rivers at night and impregnate them. It's just a way to avoid "little girls" from walking at night in wild dark places... OR an excuse for the ones that "show up" pregnants! hahaha

[@Nilguiri]

So it's basically the same as Trump voters impregnating their own sisters.

[@Jim_WoodPike_Gherkin_WangWick]

Engraçado que os gaelicos (eu acho) tem um negocio similar com uma historia de um cavalo perto da praia levando mulheres pro mar

[@Nilguiri]

@@Jim_WoodPike_Gherkin_WangWick Acho que histórias semelhantes têm existido ao longo da história em todo o mundo.

[@Jim_WoodPike_Gherkin_WangWick]

@@Nilguiri vdd, afinal se as mitologias são criadas por seres humanos cedo ou tarde as ideias se repete

[@lucas9269]

It's not a fairy tale, it's a folktale, the "Handsome Boto" is a mythical creature that even adults believe.

[@Strype13]

I love his little yellow mohawk.

[@user-ul7li5mu1s]

Thank you Anton, I really enjoy your animal shows. I believe that one day when humans brains stop thinking about humans needs man kind will be shocked at how intelligent and sensitive animals really are and hopefully will feel shame at how we treat them.

[@conservativeriot5939]

Mmmmm meat ahwhhwh

[@stm7810]

Yes, we need to abolish all unjust hierarchies including speciesism.

[@juicebox9465]

@@stm7810 Is the food chain a "Justified Hierarchy"?

[@stm7810]

@@juicebox9465 sort of, it's more that I don't know what can be done about non humans, humans can live off plants just fine, those few that do need animal products can get them from lab grown meat and such. carnivores in the wild are just surviving on instinct and it would not be feasible to do something about this without breaking all ecosystems and inventing new science. That was an interesting question.

[@b1232r]

@@stm7810 oh you're one of those wack jobs

[@klocugh12]

Fish that pause when other one is talking? They are officially more polite than most humans.

[@binaryalgorithm]

"Is there food over there?" "yeah"

[@bugtalk84]

Most mollusks aren't smart but octopuses are smart so the same logic could apply to other animals.

[@TacShooter]

Fish: "And so, we see that Shakespeare wasn't really trying to stir up the masses with controversy, but to inspire them with loftier ethics...but I digress."

[@mmickle6191]

I couldn't keep elephant nose fish, the store said they'd not be compatible with my tetras years ago. Now, with an empty tank, this video has me considering a herd of elephants...

[@farrier2708]

I don't understand why we humans find it so surprising that other species have some form of linguistic communication. I would have thought that it would be a trait essential for survival.

[@seigemusic423]

Nah it ain't WE it's THEM minimally conscious and privileged humans who get to slide threw life and " oooo and ahhhh " at everything

[@GaiaLegend]

Because not a lot of lifeforms have/do it. So everytime we find one that does, it surprises us.

[@dustinhaas8538]

Yeah its surprising because you can name on one hand the number of species with complex communication, I realize complex is this context is subjective, but still this is extremely rare, and should be oooooo'd and aaaah'd at, you fuckin' philistine. Lol

[@farrier2708]

@@dustinhaas8538 Dogs; Elephants; Gorillas; Whales; Crows: and now a fish. That's six off the top of my head. Who's the Philistine now?

[@joshuaginoza9446]

That talk just like us. Cop:Get your hands up *pulls out tazer for electric communication

[@kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126]

This is a fascinating fish! Never heard of it before. Human beings like to tell themselves that animals don’t have emotions or intelligence like they do so that the human being can eat the animals 😱🤷‍♀️ Animals have complex emotions and intelligence just like we do, so I am not surprised that a “talking fish” has been discovered. Cheers

[@WaningGibbous]

People always thought pigeons were stupid...then they discovered they recognize faces like crows.

[@EnragedTurkey]

Love this video, first time learning about this fish and my mind is exploding. Just wish you didn't put yourself on top of the fish's snoot when showing them off

[@cinfdef]

Me: *puts battery in fresh water* The one elephant fish in the area: wtf who's calling my name?

[@tylermacdonald8924]

I think the communication is the most remarkable thing about these fish, brain size is something to take note of but doesn't necessitate intelligence.

[@Mikey-dt5xi]

Anton is so cute and smart. I love watching his vids. :)

[@midloran]

Gay

[@Mikey-dt5xi]

@@midloran yup!

[@eros5420]

You know the saying, a Freshwater Elephant Fish Never Forgets... but most people dont know the full version is 'A Freshwater Elephant Fish Never Forgets About Dre."

[@murkdurk8961]

Is it normal for fish to swim backwards? I tend to think 'not'.

[@raclark2730]

They do and often, but it depends on species and lifestyle.

[@brianmarshall1762]

Most don’t go backwards, but check out any videos on knifefish. They’ve got the most amazing locomotion.

[@MrOsmodeus]

yes, how else would they remain stationary in a current? i think primary goal of any lifeform is learning how to use the muscles you have to move in your environment if they couldn't learn to swim backwards rivers would be full of stuck fish that couldn't get out of the narrow spaces they investigated

[@Tall_Hairs]

Makes me wonder if mermaids are actually real and are of similar genetics as this fish. Kinda like the ones humans share with other primates.

[@qutube100]

The real Babel fish!

[@vectravi2008]

Which end goes in your ear? Tail or head ?

[@qutube100]

@@vectravi2008 Head so that there is still a place for poop to spew out!

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

@@qutube100 definitely, as we have to listen to enough 💩as it is! 😄

[@kevinishki]

An example of eating bugs giving big brains. Pretty sure that's how we got ours. Los of bugs would be on grass lands and standing up freed up or hands to catch and carry them

[@officersoulknight6321]

It just needs better limbs to interact with its surroundings!

[@MrGrombie]

There is also a fish that raise shrimp to grow algae iirc. Fish are more like us than people realize.

[@molybdaen11]

We already know that fish communicate with each other using long sound waves.

[@cedarhatt5991]

All fish or just the edible fish?

[@bopeep7080]

I went spear fishing. I shot a Sheeps Head. We call them Sheep Head Fish here. It was like a normal fish. I shot a Grouper. It wasn't like a normal fish. It had emotion. I could see the puppy like curiosity. When I shot I was to far away. I graised it. It was sad and disappointed in what happened. I will never shoot a Grouper again.

[@auntbutton905]

The missing link between the first arthropods and the Incredible Mr Limpet!

[@bikerboy3k]

Sometimes I get one of your videos recommended and it makes me think that I don't know anything about anything.

[@ТестТестович-г2о]

Proposal for new slang term ======================= Smartfish (noun) - Mormyridae - Annoying intelligent aquatic person Example: "Let's go scuba-diving with Bob" - "Bob? That smartfish will ruin all the fun!"

[@20thcenturyboy85]

I always sensed that type of fish was intelligent!

[@KevinEontrainer381]

Humans are gangsta until one of them says "Aight Imma head out"

[@camrat3460]

Never heard of this, super interesting!

[@dsm5d723]

This now actually makes a lot of sense. I fish, and the croaker family and many others audibly grunt when out of the water. I assumed this to be distress, and it probably is, but have they been observed in Nature with sensitive enough equipment? I do not know. YOU cannot explain the fluid flow equation running in YOUR brain, so you and the fish are equals to me.

[@morwaze]

Ridiculously pleasant voice and narration. You'd be great in some horror narrations as well... Dracula for example calmly explaining to his victim how he'll drain them dry. Or real chill euro/Russian gangster. Keep it up!

[@rona657]

I had one once. Unfortunately he found a way to jump out of my sealed tank and killed himself. If you get one, make sure the tank is sealed tight. The author is right. This fish is very intelligent compared to others.

[@sunshinelizard1]

"When one fish talking, the other pauses". Maybe we could get some of these fish elected to Congress, I think they could help.

[@emmanuelgutierrez8616]

I had one as my first fish as a kid. Lol now I'm have many tanks and can't find that fish to redeem my childhood self.

[@violet4239]

This is so cool. Man. Just thinking about how we used to be fish. In millions and millions of years, this fish can become human like us. Or even something completely different and just as complex as us! Maaaaaaaan oh man. Gets my gears all oiled up. Hype.

[@sharonhare2453]

This fish reminds me of a humingbird.

[@davidm5707]

But what does a fish have to talk about? "Hey, did you see the fins on that babe?"

[@sarcohuman8147]

If you want them to be happier and act more naturally you should put them in a a few hundred gallon aquarium with a bunch of leaf litter to make the water more blackwater also if youre gonna keep a fish you should do months of reaserch before doing so

[@potentialtrashaccount6231]

This made my day: ) Thank you for the video. I suspect you meant cerebrum, instead of cerebellum.

[@yoshimansxl]

Splatoon but with fish instead of squid, interesting possible future.

[@dereckbrajevich6474]

And to think that a fish shaped like a walkie-talkie is a chatterbox.

[@manofthewest67]

There is also a large grouper fish that pairs up with an octopus and goes hunting

[@theillustrator7437]

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[@FungIsSquish]

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[@samuelbedsole5089]

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[@cavejohnson982]

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[@mateobareo4229]

You're awesome Anton

[@retardationnation869]

Funny enough I had just finished " the zoologist guide to the Galaxy". It had a chapter on communication that speculated on how "electric fish" could use the ability as a form of complex communication.

[@brainretardant]

This communication will also be linked to radar. Interpretation of these signals takes a lot of processing. This single emitter transmitter switch is necessary when using single frequency

[@muhamadreza8276]

"When one fish talking, the other pauses". Seems more civilized than my last debate.

[@ousiavazia]

yup. at least 10x more civilized than my country's president.

[@Nilguiri]

My girlfriend could learn a lot from these fish.

[@duudsuufd]

Shows how little the brain is of a lot of politicians. They only talk and never listen. There are more of them than Loner's president and will not go extinct very soon.

[@elbob099]

They always chilled 100% of the time swimming about the beautiful sea

[@f1rebreather123]

@@ousiavazia 10x more civilized than pretty much every politician in my country

[@kinglyzard]

Was the lone fish "mumbling to itself", or was it calling out for help??

[@user-zg3gh8xg9v]

Neither, just chewing some marine bubble gum .

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Could also have simply been trying to pass the time, the same way some people start humming or singing to themselves if no one's around and they're bored

[@maxpulido4268]

@@Amy_the_Lizard i do that in full company

[@KatoNamus]

Maybe the same as a human in an empty building going "Hello, is anyone there?" and then listening for a reply.

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

You could probably infer the purpose by observing the strength of the call, i.e. High strength: distress call, low strength: talking to itself.

[@terryendicott2939]

Not sure why a smart fish is a surprise. After all they have schools.

[@hereticpariah6_66]

*buh-DUM* _TSSS!!_

[@jimmie8987]

That's joke is tripe 😏

[@Lucien_75]

Smarty-pants 😛

[@PaulBrown-uj5le]

Boom!.

[@FuriousImp]

*Noice!*

[@justintimefortea7655]

I kept elephant nose fish in big 2 metre aquariums when I was younger. They loved playing with ping pong balls, neutral bouyancy toys I gave them, and the bubbles from the air pumps. They also used to play a kind of 'tag' game. At first I thought they were fighting, but eventually sussed out that they were forming teams of 2 or 3 and chasing other teams... if the chasing team 'captured' another team they would then whizz off and try to avoid those in the tagged team. They were amazing to watch.

[@nelsonthibeau2050]

That's awesome..thanks for that observation, it makes sense cause even birds play and other animals..so cool

[@ASHERUISE]

It's good they found such fun ways to keep themselves entertained.

[@ZeusHelios]

Are you kidding. If not then yea that's so cool and amazing.

[@justintimefortea7655]

@@ZeusHelios ... no mate... not kidding 😊 They were great fun to watch lol. One of their favourite foods was blood-worm (small little red worms) and it was interesting to watch them poke around in the substrate to 'home-in' on worms that were under the surface. At the time I remember wondering if they used their electricity to stun the worms. Amazing creatures that deserve a more fitting monika than 'fish'... they were like no other 'fish' that I ever kept 😁

[@MrCallingoccupants]

That's pretty amazing - Can you tell us more about their unusual behaviour?

[@lamak0925]

Not just smart but very polite. Humans don't even pause when someone else is talking.

[@saltnpepper2465]

wouldn't even be upset if they took over

[@Likexner]

Depends on where you live.

[@TSMSnation]

Maybe if you live in a perpetual political debate...

[@-touya_todoroki]

Well some of us do but we're bad at it

[@eclipsedwyvern729]

Canadians but in fish form

[@eagleone5456]

I love the off shoot videos you do. Space is infinitely interesting, but there is still so much to discover and learn from, on earth.

[@Jesse__H]

Agreed. Every aspect of science is interesting when well-communicated.

[@yabut2200]

I need more of em!

[@yabut2200]

Reminds me of more in depth SciShow vids

[@ElephantWhisperer222]

Science knows everything there is to know. Don’t question our white lab coat overlords, and don’t you dare assume that there is something they don’t know.

[@rallyfeind]

@@ElephantWhisperer222 You can say it all day. You will just be wrong if you can't demonstrably prove your statements.

[@owendubs]

This is exactly how aliens would probably talk about us.

[@BrANd1NH05]

Lmao😂

[@themonsterbaby]

Yeah. Probably wouldn't notice all the buildings and satellites and shit that obviously mean we communicate. Or the books. And the noise coming from the big hole in our face.

[@Sin-zj3ol]

@@themonsterbaby I think you missed the point 👉👈

[@xanderisloading8310]

@@themonsterbaby maybe that would seem as pointless as swimming around a tank to an alien

[@tilemacro]

@@themonsterbaby We can imagine advanced civilizations, advanced enough that could look at our satellites in the same way we look at a crow or ape using tools.

[@ha-kh7ef]

man they remind me of the evolution of humans in “all tomorrow’s”

[@musclevation9640]

Just watched all tomorrow's yesterday. This vid made me think of it, because the qu turned humans into all manners of living things.

[@somedummyonyoutube3362]

what next? are they gonna start breeding tools?

[@floridanews8786]

All tommarows is awesome

[@riotbreaker3506]

Reminds me of the aliens from Footfall, since they're basically elephants with a distinctive language.

[@themightyeagle21]

@@somedummyonyoutube3362 yes lol

[@coolbionicle]

Man, that mumbling fish part hit me hard. Poor fella entered a paranoid state and was freaking out because it was aware it was abducted by aliens and all alone, far from his people.

[@compilerofvideos]

With nobody to talk to

[@erikmckoul2478]

I wonder if it went insane.

[@noori2105]

His fish*

[@levyroth]

What timestamp? I can't seem to find it.

[@chrisherb3300]

@Andy Man What about a cage around its mouth?

[@fauzulazim2993]

Wait until they domesticate their food, create their own cities, rules and religions as a result of transferring their collective knowledge from generation to generation with the language they have

[@Acrylier]

Soon they'll be breeding fish just for suicide bombing subs

[@bryanl1984]

They'd control the majority of the planet - roughly 70%. Ofc, we're acting like there aren't already smart ocean creatures like Cetaceans and cephalopods.

[@mathtonight1084]

And then go on to discover tiny elephant minnows, which are almost as smart as them...

[@Zionswasd]

i think they need writing for that

[@estradasvirtuais2105]

they have wifi built in, so if they invent their internet, it would be much more functional than ours.