Smartest Fish on Earth, Mormyridae, Seem To Talk Just Like Us
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Not sure why a smart fish is a surprise. After all they have schools.
*buh-DUM* _TSSS!!_
That's joke is tripe 😏
Smarty-pants 😛
Boom!.
*Noice!*
"When one fish talking, the other pauses". Seems more civilized than my last debate.
yup. at least 10x more civilized than my country's president.
My girlfriend could learn a lot from these fish.
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.
They always chilled 100% of the time swimming about the beautiful sea
@@ousiavazia 10x more civilized than pretty much every politician in my country
Not just smart but very polite. Humans don't even pause when someone else is talking.
wouldn't even be upset if they took over
Depends on where you live.
Maybe if you live in a perpetual political debate...
Well some of us do but we're bad at it
Canadians but in fish form
Was the lone fish "mumbling to itself", or was it calling out for help??
Neither, just chewing some marine bubble gum .
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
@@Amy_the_Lizard i do that in full company
Maybe the same as a human in an empty building going "Hello, is anyone there?" and then listening for a reply.
You could probably infer the purpose by observing the strength of the call, i.e. High strength: distress call, low strength: talking to itself.
This is exactly how aliens would probably talk about us.
Lmao😂
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.
@@themonsterbaby I think you missed the point 👉👈
@@themonsterbaby maybe that would seem as pointless as swimming around a tank to an alien
@@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.
"I swim therefore I am". - A Mormyridae fish on the problem of conciousness.
Stop 😂😂
@White Knight noooo 🥺
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone".
- Confuisedfish
(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
Ohh man, you made it with that comment.
As someone who's been privileged to have these guys,
I can attest- even in a brief 15 minute car ride from the pet store to home,
these guys depleted nearly all the oxygen in their bag.
should've gotten an airstone
@@user-hd4wf5gq8r
In the bag? Man you guys are morons
@@MrShanester117 okay then mr fucking smart ass educate us
@@user-hd4wf5gq8r air stones aren't a magical source of oxygen they need a a pump to work, and pumps need power to work and you aren't likely to have the equipment needed to run the air stone off of a 12 volt system.
@@CharlesNauck I always transported bait in a bucket, it isn't like you need it to stay alive for more than a few hours.
man they remind me of the evolution of humans in “all tomorrow’s”
Just watched all tomorrow's yesterday. This vid made me think of it, because the qu turned humans into all manners of living things.
what next? are they gonna start breeding tools?
All tommarows is awesome
Reminds me of the aliens from Footfall, since they're basically elephants with a distinctive language.
@@somedummyonyoutube3362 yes lol
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.
That's awesome..thanks for that observation, it makes sense cause even birds play and other animals..so cool
It's good they found such fun ways to keep themselves entertained.
Are you kidding. If not then yea that's so cool and amazing.
@@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 😁
That's pretty amazing - Can you tell us more about their unusual behaviour?
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.
With nobody to talk to
I wonder if it went insane.
His fish*
What timestamp? I can't seem to find it.
@Andy Man What about a cage around its mouth?
If they spec into an ink upgrade for that mouth, they might even start writing.
That would be funny if we found a bunch of writing carved into mud at the bottom of the sea, with pictograms of other sea creatures.
@@thememoryhole9355 they are fresh water fish
@@joy0953 the bottom of the fresh water sea, duh
🤪🤣
@@thememoryhole9355 Pictograms of other sea creatures at the bottom of the sea…. In other words, Bikini Bottom
Fish 1: *".... Blub"*
Fish 2: *"I see... HOLY SHIT I TALKED"*
Fish 1: *"HOLY SHIT"*
69likesnice
@@burntchickennugget8142
Now we aim for the 420
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.
Agreed. Every aspect of science is interesting when well-communicated.
I need more of em!
Reminds me of more in depth SciShow vids
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.
@@ElephantWhisperer222 You can say it all day. You will just be wrong if you can't demonstrably prove your statements.
Electric communication, as a natural language, this sounds alien
Plants and animals on our planet use many different ways to communicate. Electric communication is nothing unusual at all.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
why, you're doing it right now....
It looks more like a humming bird to me, with a fish tail end!!
Seems more like a catfish with a strange mouth to me.
Oh, Anton, I had one of those in my aquarium years ago! It was such a sweet, adorable fish, and interacted all the time with my Plecostomus, they were "buddies" and seemed to like to hang out with one another. Now I think they were like Sponge Bob and Patrick! LOL Pachy (the name I gave to the elephant fish) loved brine shrimp, and that was his/her primary diet. Pachy also would immediately swim to the top of the of the tank when I had the brine shrimp jar in my hand. Pachy was very smart and also liked to play with a colorful marble that I put in the bottom of the tank, and often played hide and seek with my Plecostomus. Great video.
*Catches fish*
Fish:"Let me go you bi-pedal freak"
Bi-pedal freak: _craps self, releases fish._
Bi-sexual freak*
Why is it calling me a pedal?
@@ElephantWhisperer222 That was very random but okay I guess.
"Understandable, have a nice day." - the bipedal freak.
I have kept Elephant Nose's several times...they always interact with me and have a presence that very few fish have
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**
PFFFFT LOL
I was not expecting this XD
OH madon
Luca Bassi
Coral shoes instead of cement ayyy lmao
What did the fish say after hitting it's head on a wall?
"Dam."
OUCH!!!
He said let's send out our Slumlords to screw the world.
This made me laugh.. and then it made me sad
"Hey Bob, avoid any worms that are hook shaped." "Ok Sparky, thanx. Frickin' tricky humans!"
Iowa humor. Neat
In a million years when they evolve they’ll be saying this
@@MrHabitat009 Iowa humor it's because of all the corn.
This guy is aa moron. “They don’t show other signs of intelligence like tool use”……Really man? He makes a lot of negative assumptions. And I’d rather not hear any of the complete theoretical evolutionary fantasizing. It’s so basic and well “the fish had to evolve electro tails to speak cause the water was murky. So murk murk that they had to get mucho complexy. Luckily the murk mud knew it had a job to do in order to balance its karmic beam so it like the murky ded seeeè Dede see seee
@@MisterPineconeEyeSees LOL! We're full of beans too. ;-)
They are cooperative hunters. Large groups work together to hunt efficiently.
Electric eels do that too. Good observation. It's rather like telepathy.
Damn, just like humans 150k ago
Soulja boy was the first to work with people to hunt efficiently
Google Nephilim and ANUNAKI
ANCIENT SUMERIANS, huge humans whose skeletons been covered up by the ruling elite , whose families been running media etc for many generations now
Since WW1 at least
@@shgfe3ay No, that has nothing at all to do with this topic
Anton: ". . . Fish Speech or Fish Language or whatever you wanna call it."
Me: I wanna call it Fish Latin!
🤢🤮
finally a real friend i can talk with
They say the Elephant Fish never forgets.
“So my dick remembers everything.” - Kendrick Lamar
@@gravoc857 🤣
I see what you're referring to ! cute reference !
Not when they're trunk and legless.
@@gravoc857 wtf
"Hey!"
"Hey man..."
"What you doing today?"
"Swimming, eating."
"Cool."
“We’re so fuckin’ smart, bro.”
“No cap.”
“Look at us with our big-ass brains.”
“We got this.”
“Think things will ever change?”
“Nope.”
*River dries up*
“Guys, look at George, he’s mumbling to himself again.”
Murky today, isn't...Worm!
I doubt they waste their time with worthless and mundane conversation in the way that us humans love to do.
Edited to add: Like I'm doing right now.
Swimming, eating and dealing with a way more complex environment than any modern human, without the help of any technology.
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!
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!!!!!
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
Soon they'll be breeding fish just for suicide bombing subs
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.
And then go on to discover tiny elephant minnows, which are almost as smart as them...
i think they need writing for that
they have wifi built in, so if they invent their internet, it would be much more functional than ours.
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.
Wow
;)
I can imagine a team of them building a supramarine to explore the land!
how can they build without hands or feet?
@@birdy4life32 nose probably
@@birdy4life32 with an ARMy
I used to talk to all the fish in my old aquariums, you wouldn't believe all the drama going on in there.
Finally! The Babel fish! Let's put it in somebody's ear and try it out!
Yes! 😃
Ahhh! I wanted to be the first to say Babblefish!
Does that mean god doesn't exist?
am glad the babelfish joke was made anyhow
Thank you. You made my day.
Hello, wonderful fish
One big brain always trying to figure the other one.
Wow, I had these fish in an aquarium decades ago. Knew they had electric receptors, but didn't know they had big ass brains.
This is INCREDIBLE! I LOVE ANIMALS, and I am constantly AMAZED by HOW INTELLIGENT they TRULY ARE!
There are SO MANY WAYS to express and develop HIGH INTELLIGENCE... Thank you for this video!
I HOPE we will continue to LEARN and RESPECT ALL TYPES of INTELLIGENCE on our precious Home - Planet Earth...
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@BazIrvine But I'm assuming you have nothing against something like dog domestication
10:18 "which of course doesn't imply that these fish are the smartest animals on the planet"
6 months in the future...
- a mormyridae fish solves the unified theory of everything. His main motivation was to prove Anton Petrov was wrong 😅
Smatest...lol 😂
Even if it did solve it, it'd still spend it's life swimming around aimlessly in some aquarium in a dentist's office, unable to communicate anything with us.
@@jamesb2291 It will learn our written language and scribble it through the pebbles
It would be interesting to know the thoughts of other species for sure.
Since there are limitations to our ways of thinking due to our evolutionary path.
1 month more to go
“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!!!* “
The way this man can get the attention of almost a million of people when talking about fish is amazing, I wish I could be like him some day.
Nice video BTW, I enjoyed it even when I don't study marine life or anything related.
More importantly, the fish seems to know how to listen as well
Their spacecraft crashed into the sea millions of years ago and they’re waiting to be rescued…
Freashwater fish ,,,, they wouldn’t make that mistake lol
these are who biden and antifa work for.
No, it's an invasion. They're colonizing the Earth.
YESS!!¡!
sadly, no use of tools or any sort of writing.... so no possibility for a spacecraft.
To be smart is not enough, when your body/enviroment doesnt let you evolve into an advanced civilization :(
Just wait till they start breeding spaceships and getting to Mars before us, All Tomorrows style.
Until a few years ago, I've kept aquariums my whole life. Pet shops, even Petsmart, will sell these. I actually stopped the hobby because of the livestock system, and water conditions in places like Petsmart. About the oxygen and water conditions, elephant fish are so sensitive to their environment, they are used by municipalities in water treatment plants, as a canary is used in a mine. In one of the clips there is a fish called a 'baby whale', they are the same sensitivity and used the same, they also have a weird shaped head, like whale, so could possibly be a species to look at for the same thing.
That's the problem in the pet shops, is the water in all the tanks is filtered as one. In one central system, so it's essentially 1 big tank you see with dividers, even if it's actual tanks, they can do this. But those fish are from different types of water. Some from ph 6 (basic) and some from 8.5(acidic). Many species suffer. Some species like elephant fish and baby whales have very high mortality rates, in fact once they are sent home the rate is above 90% death. And they still take a lot of species from the wild, the rainforests and lakes of Africa and S America. It's a big waste and it's sad, I didn't want to be a part of it any more. I decided controlling life for my entertainment, period, was a company a person should not keep.
peace
There are places you can get fish other than petsmart. There’s an aquarium store near me that gives each tank its own water. So it’s not just a big single tank with plastic dividers.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
hahahhaha yup
Hitchhikers guide. Lol
these fish literally communicating to each other with their vibes!
Sounds like the ol guy was putting out some bad vibes. Probably farts too.
Elephant fish. Elephant fish. I will add elephant fishes to my list of smart animals.
Could i have a copy of that list?
idk much about smart animals but I can tel you what not to put on that list...its a species called "humans" they are dumb af😂
tell*
Haha my thoughts exactly
@@birdy4life32 blatant lies
I love how he takes extra pauses when he talks when describing how intelligent species use pauses to communicate.
Mumbling to itself......holy crap I'm a fish!
Holy carp, I'm a fish!
fuck, i can breathe underwater
@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
@@poknatinpokkers5289 bruh what
Obviously they haven't seen 'FINDING NEMO'..
Thanks for sharing this! This is a reminder of how difficult it will likely be to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrials if we even recognize them or their intellects.
That’s insane! These implications are huge!
How did the world change when you found out about this?
Certain kinds of catfish also communicate using sounds and vibration . I used to have several catfish I had found in a small lake when they were babies aka tadmoms and raised them in a big aquarium .They were extremely sensitive to any vibrations and the use of electric tools .They used to make sounds like grunting usually at night when they were the most active . I kept them for about three years .They were definitely interesting pets but eventually they got way too big for the 80 gallon tank ,so I set them free back in the lake I got them from .
This is one of my favorite channels. My brain needs this channel.
Are you an Elephant fish?
Well i send out waves of energy and people respond. Soooo maybe.
it'd be really interesting to know whether they have to 'learn' their own language, like humans do, or they have it pre-wired.
And if they have to learn it, do they also have a sensitive period, like us?
And the most important thing: do they swear a lot too? =)
Yes! Anyone need a PhD topic?
They probably swear constantly. Being a fish is hard. Always something trying to take a bite out of you.
Maybe a Fish talking machine will exist.
but what's a swear word really?
@@cyphi1: A way to manifest/to verbalize violently and spontaneously your emotional irritation or your irritability.
I wonder if we could monitor, record, and gather information in how they use this electromagnetic communication. Build like, common patterns. Then create some kind of device that sends the same kind of electric signals back to talk to them. TRAIN THEM TO SPEAK TO US ! "Sorry we trashed your house with plastic bags, please forgiv"
Wow!
This seems to suggest that complex communication could have developed before other important skills in humans too. What amazing fish!
Cool. They had radio long before we did. Brilliant.
500 hz tranceivers.
Big brain is now the new meta
Yeah it seems so. Especially more of that cerebelum or prefrontal cortex
Nerf!
Tier zoo level comment
@@cobalius I mean, worked for us, right?
@@casucasueq4479
Narf!
Hello Anton, you wonderful person. you never cease to amaze. Thank you for all your wonderful, interesting and intelligent presentations! Not only about space, but earth too.
The conceit of humans has been phenomenal for such a long time. We are discovering many animals with great but "different" intelligence. Great video, thanks.
I absolutely love fish I have 8 aquariums at home. You should have a look at the Chiclid family of fish. They are generally considered the most intelligent fish species by enthusiasts. Some species will allow you to pet and hand feed them and they even recognize their owners. The lovable "Oscar" fish is my favorite Chiclid. Oscars behave more like pet dogs than fish.
I had a hump head years ago. Yeah, he was smart and recognized us.
Oscars are the best. I've played with them and hand feed them. I agree, they're much more like dog than a fish.
I agree. One Texas Chiclid I trained to go inside a container on bottom of tank for "time out" when he got too rowdy. Dog.
Cichlids are very smart (as fishes go), but are a notch down from these elephant nose fish.
Mormyridae: “Hey, pull my protrusion.”
Thank you for that
“Why are there air bubbles coming out your back?”
Missed opportunity to use the word 'proboscis' :) Check out Edgar Allan Poe's story "Lionizing"!
I had one once in a aquarium but the blowfish ate its protrusion and it died not long after... that protusion def. is it's achilles heel.
@@jairdabrini The blowfish ate its nose?!
Mormyrid: ÆUGH?
Mormyrid: ÆUGH!
Wait, does that mean I can learn "fish" as a language?
Yes but its like describing colors to a blind person, youd need a multimeter and a taser to even try
@@eeeguba432 but you could create an alphabet using the electric patterns
They are here with us, not for us!
Thank you!!! Humans think other humans are less intelligent just over language barriers, and so the same with animals. They speak differently, still They Speak. God bless em' all.
Wow. Law of the jungle, eat or be eaten. You are putting a false morality on this issue. Vegan, or vegetarian? We are THE apex predator on this planet, that's all, we are just another animal. Human beings need the nutrition from meats for proper brain development.
I wonder if they're actually conscious beings, just like us, but can't create a civilization simply because they don't have hands.
If we somehow gave them hands, i wonder if they would develop use of tools or not. Hands enable it, but I'd be curious if by having consciousness they will pick up on it or if it takes far longer for tool use.
@@chill.8426 Pretty sure I've heard the same idea on the history Channel
Why wouldn't they be able to create a civilization without hands?
@@siyacer fish
This has been my exact thought in regards to orcas. I feel like the only reason they haven't developed use of tools is because theyre just too well adapted to their environment so they never had a need for an equivalent of hands to let them develop tools. So basically, the only reason we're so good at everything is because we are by ourselves not good at anything.
Amazing ! You are very articulate, made this video a pleasure to watch. First time I've ever heard of this fish, wow.great info thanks.
Fascinating stuff. I appreciate that you're making some of these videos, not all of them being space stuff (even though that's what I subscirbed to you for).
Love how your channel goes from space to cute fish 😂
It seems the ability to build a society is not based so much on absolute intelligence, but also on the ability to work together, learn, and, maybe most importantly, to have the physical means (hands, tools, etc.) to do so.
Ahh yes, the Babel fish..
Thank you for an accurate title with no clickbait. Great video, rly interesting
I recently acquired two betta fish. They are smart enough to have definite, distinctive personalities. It is quite amazing just how different their personalities are!
Douglas Adams would have loved this.
"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"
That was my first thought too 😁
And now we talk to Zaphod's psychotherapist...: "Well, he's just this guy, you know."
Anton, I watch your videos not just for the information, but for your narration!
It’s always nice to see a video that isn’t space related from this channel.
To be fair, many humans never develop tool use either!
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I get this is a joke, but that would only be possible of someone with extreme brain damage. Anyone with functional motor skills can open a jar, climb a ladder, or tie their shoes.
Fish are much more complex than ppl think. I have a large aquarium in my living room, and I have several smart fish in my aquarium. My fish both have individual character and emotions, and they learn and communicate, they can express joy, anger and sadness
Same with birds, reptiles, dogs, cats, etc.
I had a sick Corydoras come to the front of my large community tank It was like it was asking for help. It’s in my hospital tank now and on the mend, but I swear it acted like it was dark with me till I had to move a second sick Corydora in with it. Even if it’s not that, it was weird behaviour that I can’t explain.
Thats all animals pretty much. Because certain traditions and western religions concentrated on the inferiority and lack of souls, its almost a universal assumptuon even from intelligent people to say "we are the only aware/conscious/freewill animal" which is super-stupid and presumptuous
@@jorgepeterbarton it's not presumptuous in biblical fact that humans are the only ones with souls. We are made in the image of God and have inherent value.
@@conservativeriot5939 "Biblical Fact" , "image of God" , "inherent value".
i certainly rather have that mumbling fish around than you people.
good riddance.
Knowing humans volatile nature, that intelligent fish will soon land on our plates.
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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.
Make your tank more accommodating to the reproduction of ghost shrimp is my first suggestion. Maybe even snails. I had one before and lived for quite some time in my 29 gallon. It was obvious that this fish recognized me. I wish I had a mate/friend for it now. Poor thing must have felt alone. Tank mates included a dragon fish, black tipped catfish.banjo catfish some tetras and albino snails that laid eggs frequently but never had babies that survived.
Ah, the Tool Breeders. Can't wait when they grow tools.
Ayyyy All tomorrows reference
Just watched that last night lol
Oh yeah all tomorrow
So long and thanks for all the fish tales.
Clever hitchhiker talk. ÷)
Remember to bring your towel! 😃
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Babel Fish?
when our daughter was dropped at the airport after a nice visit, she said to us "so long and thanks for all the fish" lol
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.
Long time fan, thanks for your video’s,awesome.
If we ever hope to speak to aliens, we're going to have to figure out out to talk to birds and aquatic animals.
Underrated comment right here ^
True, but easier said than done.
As a manatee and psitacid vet/trainer, we already now how to (more or less) speak to them (birds and marine mammals I mean), but to fish... that's something I didn't even imagined before.
I wonder what could be achieved if we could talk to every animal. Hmmm
Could be a great challenge to use self learning algorithms for.
I thought you would say" ... today we are going to talk WITH fish"
This is really fascinating, thank you for this video!
Absolutely fascinating and exciting!! Thanks for reporting on this!
They haven't said much about the meaning of life, have they? Oh well. So long and thanks for all the fish.
What ever you don't stop for lobster
Vivi?
Mormyridae 1: ' So outside the water sphere we detect the air-belt, and we think alien species live there that sometimes kidnap us..
Mormydidae 2: Oh please, that's not scientifically proven. How would they even get here ?
_How_ _to_ _Serve_ _Man_
Underrated comment! It's that simple, really.
I think fish probably know that land-dwelling animals exist.
@@ASHERUISE Who knows ? Their eyes are at the side of their heads. But that aside, and i doubt their long term memory isn't that advanced either. They all just loiter around, suddenly something happens.They see a shadow, then a second of chaos and splashing ..And suddenly little jimmy is gone ;)
Informative and straight to the point. Great video!
This is fascinating, it's an intelligent fish that can actually talk.
Clownfish are plenty smart, but these are downright amazing. Maybe get an Ai to translate the language, I have a few questions for them
All fish have a measure of intelligence & will come to those who ask, the right way.
The electric eel is actually not an eel, it's in the same mormyid knifefish family seen here.
I’ll take the bait (🤦): what’s the right way?
@@PsychicPsychToad communication with electrical signals offers many possibilities of cognitive behavioral analysis
@@seankerr9158 you're so close to getting it...
Don't go buying elephant fish now, they are really hard to maintain
Dont put them into tanks at all.
Yeah, its the same thing when pet stores carry rabbits for easter. Ppl want them as a quick novelty and then dont take proper care of them thinking they are just rodents and all you do is feed them. They really benefit from social interaction and stimulation. Pkus they are built for moving about in large areas, not hop about in a small cage and run around the house once a month when you have time.
Many common pets are like this.
@@HoneybunMegapack They are just hard to feed, very finicky and like live food. Some will starve to death, it's sad
@@nunyabisnass1141: But rabbits are tasty.
Is it because they are heavy
I get so excited when I learn about a species I’ve never seen before! This is so cool 😎
Plot twist: you gain a +1 to your brain capacity permanently each time you eat that fish.
....welcome to TCM ☹️ they actually believe that sh!t (re: tiger penis & shark fins).
The elephant fish are also used to control the water quality at the waterworks, the electrical chatter reacts very well to changes of the water quality and is easy to measure.
Cladistically speaking, we're a type of lobe-finned fish
I was just complaining about this!
No were classed as monkeys according to evolution
I'm a mer-man. A MER-MAN!!!!
@@bl1398 yeah and all land vertebrates are descendant of amphibious lobe finned fish a horse a fish a human is a fish and a giraffe is a fish technically
@@bl1398 Monkeys, and us, are technically an "advanced" form of fish. We are descended of a type of worm that became a fish, which became lobe finned, which became tetrapodal amphibians, which became reptilian, which became basal mammals, which became basal rodents, which became monkeys, which became apes, leading to us, the most intelligent ape currently living. That's how Evolution works. I hope this helps you understand all this.
" But we are not going to be able to inerpret, what they are saying ..."
Well, it's not impossible: Deep-Squeak is a neural network that is able to isolate and interpret rat squeaks. That interpretation is really rough, but it gives an idea of wether the rat is happy, hungry or scared.
That's why I love this channel you get a little bit of everything... Informative, diverse content and a cute host 😉
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