malaria
01-15-2003, 04:37 AM
This article was in today's London Metro and I thought I'd share it with you...
Metro, Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Now Showing! Fry-day the 13th
HAND-REARED salmon are being shown fish 'horror movies' to toughen them up for release into the wild. The films, which feature footage of sharks ripping up their prey, are being played on TVs next to a scientist's aquarium. 'We want to give them a proper fright but not so bad we end up killing them,' said Dr Culum Brown of Edinburgh University. 'It's for their own good. If we just release them, 99 out of 100 will end up being eaten within the first couple of days because they have no experience of predators.'
The screenings should increase their survival rate and boost desperately low fish stocks, he added. Dr Brown said fish were very intelligent and could be trained like dogs. 'Here, we teach fish to swim through mazes and all sorts of things - they're quite incredible,' he added.
Metro, Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Now Showing! Fry-day the 13th
HAND-REARED salmon are being shown fish 'horror movies' to toughen them up for release into the wild. The films, which feature footage of sharks ripping up their prey, are being played on TVs next to a scientist's aquarium. 'We want to give them a proper fright but not so bad we end up killing them,' said Dr Culum Brown of Edinburgh University. 'It's for their own good. If we just release them, 99 out of 100 will end up being eaten within the first couple of days because they have no experience of predators.'
The screenings should increase their survival rate and boost desperately low fish stocks, he added. Dr Brown said fish were very intelligent and could be trained like dogs. 'Here, we teach fish to swim through mazes and all sorts of things - they're quite incredible,' he added.