Fish taught to play sports

[Neo]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06024/643104.stm

"This Isaac is a genius!" Dean Pomerleau says as he works with his newest student, a betta, or Siamese fighting fish, whose full name is Isaac Newton. Just one day after Mr. Pomerleau acquired him (to replace a fish by the same name who expired), Isaac is swimming through a hoop to get to a bit of food his trainer is offering via a homemade feeding wand.

This "positive reinforcement" technique, as used to train other animals, is what Mr. Pomerleau, 41, and his 9-year-old son, Kyle, began experimenting with about a year ago when Kyle came home with two goldfish he'd won at a school fair.

[Happydude]

heh, cool.

[Typhoid]

Why can the word "expired" only be used with fish in that context?



Although, that would make it easy to break it to little kids when their dogs die.


"I'm sorry little Billy, but Rex was expired by the front end of a Chevy."