APOCALYPSE NOW !!! Fish Caught Using Tools

Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools

While exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, professional diver Scott Gardner heard an odd cracking sound and swam over to investigate. What he found was a footlong blackspot tuskfish (Choerodon schoenleinii) holding a clam in its mouth and whacking it against a rock. Soon the shell gave way, and the fish gobbled up the bivalve, spat out the shell fragments, and swam off. Fortunately, Gardner had a camera handy and snapped what seem to be the first photographs of a wild fish using a tool.

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So now you know, humans are not the ONLY ones that use tools, the article went on to say that primates, birds, dolphins, elephants, naked mole rats, and octopuses all use tools.

reply to post by MACchine


humans haven't been the ONLY ones using tools for centuries...

10 animals that use tools

And that's only 10...

What does a fish cracking a clam on a rock have to do with the apocalypse anyway?

You seriously didnt know this?

reply to post by MACchine


So how does a fish smacking a clam on a rock bring on the apocalypse?

Seriously.... I'm starting ot worry

Originally posted by W3RLIED2
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Seriously.... I'm starting ot worry

GOOD POINT ?!?!?!

Originally posted by VicDiaz89
You seriously didnt know this?

Are YOU the Fish Whisperer ???

LMAO

Love the title, Its almost like "Cheeky fish busted trying to be clever"

Thanks for the laugh dude

reply to post by MACchine


Thanks for sharing!! We mostly hear about primates using tools, so this really is interesting. I wonder if this behavior is learned or instinctive.

Wow mate ..you need a rest from internet ...go on camping or something else

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Eeeuu, they let GIRRRLs go camping ?

I'll start worrying when the fish split the atom and develop a self-contained above-water breathing apparatus.

Fortunately, Gardner had a camera handy and snapped what seem to be the first photographs of a wild fish using a tool.

The fish broke a shell against a rock to get to the meat inside the shell. The shell wasn't a tool, so I guess they're trying to say the rock was. If the fish had set the shell down, picked up a rock and smashed the shell with it, then it might be reasonable to say it had used a tool. But they are really stretching to say that this act was tool usage. Squirrels bang nuts on hard surfaces to see if the meat inside is good or not, but I've never heard anyone say they're using a tool when they do that.

Here is if the fish would speak, i was very surprised.

For anyone interested, here's a newly released video of said fish...





And an article about the video:

"What the movie shows is very interesting. The animal excavates sand to get the shell out, then swims for a long time to find an appropriate area where it can crack the shell," Bernardi said. "It requires a lot of forward thinking, because there are a number of steps involved. For a fish, it's a pretty big deal."

Fish Uses Tool to Dig Up and Crush Clams