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Fish can judge distances accurately just like land animals can
Life 14 November 2019 By Ruby Prosser Scully Good with distancesMichael Spring / Alamy Stock PhotoTriggerfish have an impressive ability to estimate how far they have swum, and scientists think that understanding this may shed light on the how all animals with a backbone evolved the ability to navigate spaces. There is growing evidence to…
Life
14 November 2019
Michael Spring / Alamy Stock Photo
Triggerfish have an impressive ability to estimate how far they have swum, and scientists think that understanding this may shed light on the how all animals with a backbone evolved the ability to navigate spaces.
There is growing evidence to suggest that ray-finned fish, known as teleosts and which comprise 96 per cent of all freshwater and marine fish species on the planet, have a region of the brain that works like our hippocampus does.
This part of the brain is critical to the way we navigate, and – if analogous …
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