
Fishes Use Problem-Solving and Invent Tools
Some fish species turn out to be very good problem solvers. At times they even use tools
Jonathan Balcombe is an animal behaviorist and author. He is director of animal sentience for the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and an associate editor of the institute's journal Animal Sentience. Credit: Nick Higgins
Some fish species turn out to be very good problem solvers. At times they even use tools
New discoveries show that fishes are capable of complex mental calculus, reshaping our ideas about animal intelligence underwater
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