Remember When 10 Year Old Girls Used To Wear Happy Bunny T Shirts That Just Said Shit Like Im Going To

Remember when 10 year old girls used to wear happy bunny t shirts that just said shit like “I’m going to skin you alive”

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Finland is the winner in my heart. You can't change my mind

PBS NOVA NOW:  Fish Have Feelings, Too

Our long-overlooked aquatic cousins have emotions, social lives, and intelligence—yet we continue to view them primarily as fillets. Some scientists hope to change that.

In fact, science is increasingly revealing that fishes are intelligent, emotional beings—but the inflated value we tend to assign to all things human often prevents us from accepting such findings, says biologist Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows. Because fishes lack faces like ours, we assume that their mask-like features mean they do not experience feelings. And because fish cannot cry out, we interpret their silence as meaning they do not perceive pain—even as their gasping mouths and flopping fins on a ship’s deck indicate otherwise.

Science is increasingly revealing that fishes are intelligent, emotional beings.

“Their bodies are shaped differently, their eyes don’t blink, they’re bathed permanently in water and—while they make lots of sounds underwater—we don’t hear them because they’re transmitted in an aqueous environment,” Balcombe says. “But they are sentient creatures with the capacity to feel.”

Humans also tend to assume that because fishes are cold-blooded (put more precisely, ectothermic) and began evolving around 100 million years before land animals, they must be “primitive.” But evolution is anything but static, and fishes’ early start actually means they’re the most highly evolved of all vertebrates, Balcombe points out. Many of the world’s 33,000-plus known species of fish possess incredible senses and abilities, some of which we are only just beginning to understand.