Archerfish, one of Southeast Asia’s deadliest sharpshooters, depend heavily on shape to classify new objects.
, knocking the bug into the river, where it can be gobbled up.
To find out, neuroscientist Ronen Segev and colleagues trained five archerfish to shoot at images on a computer screen hanging above their tanks in their lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Archerfish don’t need extra incentive to snipe bugs in the wild, but they required a bit of coaxing to spit at the motionless, gray-scale facsimiles on screen. The researchers rewarded the fish with food pellets when they shot jets of water at blinking squares on the screen.
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