GOLDFISH LEARNS TO PLAY FOOTBALL

Span the goldfish can shoot and score in his tank.  He can also play netball, swim through rings and limbo under tiny bars.  Who said fish aren't intelligent? 

 

His owner and trainer, Peter Bettison, used an intensive course to teach Span how to score every time.  Span can deftly nudge a submerged ball along the bottom of his tank into a goal. 

 

Mr Bettison said:  "Basically you start gradually using a reward system - a bit like footballers' pay but fish food for it - to encourage the fish to first swim through a ring.  Then gradually you work up to a six-inch tube for the fish to swim through, horizontal, then vertical," and so on.

Read more and see pictures and watch video - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360452/Is-called-Sole-Campbell-Goldfish-learns-play-football-owner-spends-hours-training-it.html

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