Researchers: Goldfish Have Feelings

According to research, goldfish have long memories, may feel pain and can even pine for their owners when they are away.

In their paper — Ornamental Fish: Making Fish Smile, Sing and Dance — Loh and Matt Landos, his colleague, write: “Experiments on fish have examined the capacity of the fish to retain learnt information and be aware of consequences of certain responses . . . It has been established that fish do have some memory which can be recalled.”