Lumpfish Training Clip 2

From the New England Aquarium's Marine Mammal Trainers Blog: http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/blogs_webcams_videos_and_more/bl...

I know, I know "training a fish?!" you say. But you would be suprised how much a fish can learn and in a pretty short period of time. Right now, I am training her how to go to her target (a specific object that I have deemed "hers") which is a red spoon. I am also training her how to push a lightweight ball around the tank and even do spins! Here are two clips of a "spin" training session.

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Science & Technology

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• lumpfish
• training
• fish
• new
• england
• aquarium
• cute
• animal
• tricks
• spins

[REALCougarsRmales]

are lumpfish smarter than your average fish or can any fish be trained?

[NewEnglandAquarium]

@REALCougarsRmales Thanks for the question! Oscar fish and lumpfish are thought to be the most trainable fish. 

[jadedmoonlight]

@NewEnglandAquarium The entire family that oscars belong to (Cichlidae) are considered highly trainable, I think. Or at least, the cichlids I work with in lab seem to have picked up a few behaviors, haha.

Any reason why lumpfish seem to be more trainable, evolutionarily?

This is SO neat, please keep doing more with this! I love that people can see that fish can be intelligent as well.

[ChantezWithMe]

This is amazing. I stumbled across this fish a few days ago on the internet and was simply fascinated with their "ventral sucker disks." Now...they can be trained?? They are incredible! This is a REALLY neat thing you're doing. :)

[0rca0cean]

lol so cute