Game for Fish: Following a Target
744 views · Published 1 March 2013 · 1:13 · Indexed 11 October 2026
Channel: Born to Behave · 2013 · Pets & Animals
Fun and easy game for human and fish! Teaching a fish how to follow a target is the easiest and most useful trick. Once you can get your fish to target, you can lead him through hoops, tunnels, and slalom posts. Fish share several basic emotions with us humans. "Seeking" is one of them. Seeking is "the basic impulse to search, investigate, and make sense of the environment". It is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good, and curiosity, which most people probably don't think of as being an emotion at all. (source: Temple Grandin, link below) In the wild, a fish would be foraging all day for little bits of food using his seeking drive. In a tank, food comes independently of his actions. Your little friend will love the feeling of control he gets from being able to directly influence his environment. For more on basic emotions by Temple Grandin: http://www.grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.human.ch1.html For the R2 Fish School: http://www.r2fishschool.com
