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Scientists spent a month terrifying guppies to prove that fish have personalities
Five minutes in the life of a guppy in the terrible spring of 2015: You’re swimming around with your friends in a tank. You’ve been here for days. Food falls from the sky. Everything is fine. Then suddenly, you’re netted up and dropped into an alien world, all alone, just you and the glass. You panic at first, but in time your courage returns and you investigate. Glass wall; glass wall; glass wall; glass wall. A scrap of plastic on the aquarium floor provides the only scant shelter. Hmm …
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For most of us that have kept fish for any length of time, we could probably have easily told you that yes fish have personalities. If you keep cichlids each one will have a different personality, some hide, some play, some will nip at you, they will follow you and know who you are in when you come in a room. My parents always knew which person was in front of the tank, if my dad showed up they went to the top for food, my mom they would just follow and for us kids they hid, I assume because of the tapping on the glass stuff.
I wonder , through those big eyes, what they think. They certainly are attentive and respond accordingly.