Scientists teach fish to drive a tank on wheels
It might be an imaginary character straight out of a Dr Seuss book: The goldfish who could drive. Yet it is real. Incredibly, Israeli researchers created a robotic car and report that they taught six fish — named after characters from Pride and Prejudice — to navigate it on land. It is all in the name of science, of course. The team had been dreaming up ways to test fish navigation for a while, said Shachar Givon from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, first author of a study published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research. “Recently, we even ventured out to the