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Fish Depression Is Not a Joke
Something i already believe in for the biggest part of beeing active in this hobby, about 40 years.. Tho it never was and even today it still isn't realy open to any discussion for the majority of people. Always experienced lots of people reacting to it in a cynical manner and always kinda downsizing it and joking it away. Or laugh it away as humanizing pets behaivor, which is the most common excuse. Like you are the idiot who talks to his fish.
Holding my ground firmly for all this time earned me the nickname Dr. Doolitlle, the nutty guy who believes he can talk to animals. Funny actualy and always felt pitty, more for the animal, but also a bit for the people not understanding, that it actualy aint at all about talking and not about humanizing. It's observing behaivor, interpreting this with an open mind and giving the benefit of the doubt. And respect this for as long as you do not know. Not particularly scientific, but at least it's open minded and keeping realistic possibilities in the back of your mind.
But at last, it took a very long time for some sceintist finaly to take the mater seriously and study the subject in controlled conditions with cotrolled stimuli.
Unfortunately the last bold sentence still holds very true.. It also reflects in the advices people still get from the LFS today and for example in the price of pioneer <Culum Browns> book <Fish Cognition and Behavior>
Maybe not that important to buy and read such an expensive book about it if you are the hobbyist. I didn't because i believe it contents already long before it was ever written. I do not realy need to know factual details for something i already believe since childhood. But for anybody having troubles with this idea, just keep in mind. By now you are most likely prooven very wrong.
Some more interesting reads about it
<How do we know wheter fish have feelings too?>
<Fish Are Sentient and Emotional Beings and Clearly Feel Pain>
<Fish can recognise human faces, new research shows>
<Fish are sentient animals who form friendships and experience 'positive emotions'>
<Functional aspects of emotions in fish>
Have fun! And hopefully this will make you love your fish even more than you ever did before.
Something i already believe in for the biggest part of beeing active in this hobby, about 40 years.. Tho it never was and even today it still isn't realy open to any discussion for the majority of people. Always experienced lots of people reacting to it in a cynical manner and always kinda downsizing it and joking it away. Or laugh it away as humanizing pets behaivor, which is the most common excuse. Like you are the idiot who talks to his fish.
Holding my ground firmly for all this time earned me the nickname Dr. Doolitlle, the nutty guy who believes he can talk to animals. Funny actualy and always felt pitty, more for the animal, but also a bit for the people not understanding, that it actualy aint at all about talking and not about humanizing. It's observing behaivor, interpreting this with an open mind and giving the benefit of the doubt. And respect this for as long as you do not know. Not particularly scientific, but at least it's open minded and keeping realistic possibilities in the back of your mind.
But at last, it took a very long time for some sceintist finaly to take the mater seriously and study the subject in controlled conditions with cotrolled stimuli.
Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture conditions, are the most common pet and are widely used for scientific research. But fish are seldom afforded the same level of compassion or welfare as warm-blooded vertebrates. Part of the problem is the large gap between people’s perception of fish intelligence and the scientific reality. This is an important issue because public perception guides government policy.
Unfortunately the last bold sentence still holds very true.. It also reflects in the advices people still get from the LFS today and for example in the price of pioneer <Culum Browns> book <Fish Cognition and Behavior>
Maybe not that important to buy and read such an expensive book about it if you are the hobbyist. I didn't because i believe it contents already long before it was ever written. I do not realy need to know factual details for something i already believe since childhood. But for anybody having troubles with this idea, just keep in mind. By now you are most likely prooven very wrong.
Some more interesting reads about it
<How do we know wheter fish have feelings too?>
<Fish Are Sentient and Emotional Beings and Clearly Feel Pain>
<Fish can recognise human faces, new research shows>
<Fish are sentient animals who form friendships and experience 'positive emotions'>
<Functional aspects of emotions in fish>
Have fun! And hopefully this will make you love your fish even more than you ever did before.