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Goldfish have
TRUE or
FALSE?

three-second memories

Goldfish are more gifted than people

think. Studies have found them
to be fast learners and punctual

timekeepers, with the ability How do
to remember colors, music, save the lives
goldfish
and other cues months later, of people?

sinking this myth to the
bottom of the fishbowl.

SALMON SWIMMERS

Goldfish
are the world’s
most popular
Adult salmon nearly always return to the river pet fish.
in which they spent their early life to breed.
Once they’re close to home, these speedy
swimmers detect minerals in the water and Light is necessary
trace them to their birthplace, where they for goldfish to produce
go to lay eggs. Tagged salmon swam almost orange pigmentation;
2,000 miles (3,220 km) in 60 days along in the dark, they
the Yukon River in Canada and Alaska. would be paler.

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