Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing’s Math

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...
The Washington Post

Can fish learn simple math? They can when a treat is involved.

It’s no shocker that Harry and Hermione would know that 4 – 1 = 3. But what if I told you that this Harry and Hermione aren’t characters in Harry Potter stories — they’re stingrays. And they can still ...
The Boston Globe

Fish don’t learn it in schools, but they can do math

“Do you know much about the mating habits of the tungara frog?” Brian Butterworth asks eagerly. The tiny tungara lives in swamps from Mexico to South America. To impress females, males make a call ...
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Fish “Math” Studies Offer Insights on Ways to Treat Human Neuro Disorders

Fish are helping researchers track down the origins of how brains compute math, according to a review (“Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology”) in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. An ...