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Author’s Note: Writing about fish was defiantly a different writing style then I’m used to. Usually my stories are fiction or about a book I read, but this one I had to do some research to find facts and information.

Memory Myth

P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sidney. Finding Nemo’s Dori repeats this with excitement over and over because it is the only sentence she is able to remember. Is this possible? Although she is a cartoon, people would like to know, Fact or Fake?

People are now starting to want to know if fish have short memory spans or not. St. Andrews University decided to teach fish to go through obstacles, remember people, and even when to eat. Teaching fish to learn when to eat sounds very complicating, but it’s actually not. All the scientists had to do was make a certain noise around lunch time and the fish would sooner or later realize that every time that noise would go off they would get to eat. After a while, the fish caught on and were able to get to the food before the sound even turned on.

Teaching the fish when to get their food was very impressive, but the scientists wanted to do more. They decided to try to put them back in the ocean to see if they would get the same results. Divers took the fish back to the ocean and made the noise just to remind them. They then left, and came back three weeks later with the same noise and food for the fish. It so happens, that the fish were able to remember the sound and were capable of finding the food.

Since the tests went extremely well, scientists decided that fish defiantly do not have a memory span of three seconds. Although we did unfold the mystery, that doesn’t mean we want to end the research. Scientists still want to know if all fish have a long memory span or what the longest one is. Seeing how we were able to solve the memory mystery, we should be able to find out more soon.

Even if we aren’t able to figure out all the unanswered questions, we were still able to find the truth on their memory. With all the technology we have now, scientists have proven to us that the myth of the three second memory is defiantly fake.