Thursday 7 April 2022

Fish can perform addition and subtraction, finds study

Fish can perform addition and subtraction, finds study

Cichlid and stingray fish species can perform simple calculations in numbers ranging from one to five, a study stated. Researchers trained them to perform simple additions and substractions by increasing and decreasing an initial value by one. They can also be trained to detect smaller quantities without even counting. It, however, is not known what these fish need their mathematical abilities for.

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