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Tardigradelegs OP t1_j0qidke wrote

Reply to Meet rescue elephant Sissy. She famously survived a record flood as a zoo elephant by bracing her body between 2 trees and holding her trunk above water for 36 hours. Understandably, she has always been nervous of water but here she is at 54 years old, 41 years after the flood, enjoying a hose bath. by Tardigradelegs

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2nT6ReKBE&ab_channel=elephantsanctuarytn

https://www.elephants.com/elephants/sissy

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Tardigradelegs OP t1_is699f6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Scientists have proved goldfish do have good memories and are able to navigate their surroundings. A team from Oxford University trained nine fish to travel 70cm (2.3ft) and back, receiving a food reward at the end. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. by Tardigradelegs

That's outdated info.

There's at least 60 years of research into fish memory now. It's one week in the study I last read and even that one is out of date now.

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2019/10/27/how-long-is-a-goldfishs-memory/

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Tardigradelegs OP t1_is675e0 wrote

Reply to comment by Ineedavodka2019 in Scientists have proved goldfish do have good memories and are able to navigate their surroundings. A team from Oxford University trained nine fish to travel 70cm (2.3ft) and back, receiving a food reward at the end. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. by Tardigradelegs

Yes, a lot of research on pain in fish now, this one off the top of my head: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-fish-pain-similarity-mammals.html

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Tardigradelegs OP t1_is5vu63 wrote

Reply to comment by Accidental-Genius in Scientists have proved goldfish do have good memories and are able to navigate their surroundings. A team from Oxford University trained nine fish to travel 70cm (2.3ft) and back, receiving a food reward at the end. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. by Tardigradelegs

Bottom of study linked: Funding

This research was funded by a Human Frontier Science Program grant RGP0016/2019. C.N. was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

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Tardigradelegs OP t1_is5swc9 wrote

Reply to Scientists have proved goldfish do have good memories and are able to navigate their surroundings. A team from Oxford University trained nine fish to travel 70cm (2.3ft) and back, receiving a food reward at the end. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. by Tardigradelegs

Abstract

Neurophysiological advances have given us exciting insights into the systems responsible for spatial mapping in mammals. However, we are still lacking information on the evolution of these systems and whether the underlying mechanisms identified are universal across phyla, or specific to the species studied. Here we address these questions by exploring whether a species that is evolutionarily distant from mammals can perform a task central to mammalian spatial mapping–distance estimation. We developed a behavioural paradigm allowing us to test whether goldfish (Carassius auratus) can estimate distance and explored the behavioural mechanisms that underpin this ability. Fish were trained to swim a set distance within a narrow tank covered with a striped pattern. After changing the background pattern, we found that goldfish use the spatial frequency of their visual environment to estimate distance, doubling the spatial frequency of the background pattern resulted in a large overestimation of the swimming distance. We present robust evidence that goldfish can accurately estimate distance and show that they use local optic flow to do so. These results provide a compelling basis to use goldfish as a model system to interrogate the evolution of the mechanisms that underpin spatial cognition, from brain to behaviour.

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- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1220

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Tardigradelegs t1_is094ie wrote

Reply to TIL of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, who had his leg blown off by a cannon in the Battle of Waterloo. It was put in a shrine in the garden of the house where he was amputated, becoming a local tourist attraction. by 1945BestYear

His prosthetic leg was also very impressive; possibly the first articulated prosthetic leg in place of the static 'peg leg' type developed by a London limb maker named James Potts. - https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/history/2020/12/02/disability-history-month-henry-paget-the-earl-of-uxbridge/

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You can also visit the prosthetic at the Calvary museum in Anglesey, Wales.

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