Eleanor Spicer Rice

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Something You Should Know · Why Pets Behave So Strangely & The Surprising Rhythm of Your Brain - SYSK Choice · 26 Sep 2026 podcast

And they taught the fish to drive it and the fish learned how to drive down the street and get food and drive back home.

They learned directions in a in a on on a landscape.

They can remember mazes and all that kind of stuff.

But all of that combines to be really horrible in terms of ecology because they're so smart and because they're so long lived and because we get them at the fair and we dump them in a pond or a stream.

And they're so adaptable that

Goldfish come originally, they're Asian carp.

And they're beautiful in our bowls, but within a few generations, they because they have so many babies, they revert back to their wild type, which is this big, boring, dull-colored, very, very, very smart fish.

And so they can have

Up to 40,000 eggs a year and they grow to be about the size like of a man's big shoe, a big man's big foot, you know.

And

What they do is because their memories are so great and because their navigation is so great, they can navigate all these streams and waterways to these massive spawning events.

They can go over a hundred miles through the water to go to these massive spawning events and then swim back to their streams and release their 40,000 eggs every year.

And they're so smart that like they've learned that one of the ways that people get rid of fish that are unwanted in a pond or something is they come and they shock the pond.

And the fish that were there will float to the top and then they harvest the ones that they don't want in there.

It's like weeding a garden.

But goldfish can learn really quickly.

So when they see the pond shockers coming, they just swim to the bottom and they wait it out and they're beyond the electric current and they're fine.

So they can uh they can evade our detection and they eat everything and they disrupt a lot.

So now goldfish are ranked as one of the most destructive invasive species on the planet.

Well, we think because we we think about goldfish as living in fish bowls.

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