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Jordan's Tuskfish

Choerodon jordani

Classification

Family
Labridae

Fish intelligence is "the result of the process of acquiring, storing in memory, retrieving, combining, comparing, and using in new contexts information and conceptual skills" as it applies to fish. Due to a common perception amongst researchers that teleosts are "primitive" compared to mammals and birds, there has been much less research into fish cognition than into those types of animals, and much remains unknown about fish cognition, though evidence of complex navigational skills such as cognitive maps is increasing. Compared to similarly sized fish, mammals and birds typically have brain…

Distribution

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