<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7febf0fd-f3e2-4c84-a1cf-78b437a484e8/08005D5C-1A85-481C-8B32-467606D2C112/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm" href="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inthenews.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm"><DIV><SPAN></SPAN><DIV> <IMG src="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/photo/photo-x-$7036132$180.jpg" title="The nine-spined stickleback" /><DIV> The nine-spined stickleback </DIV><DIV> <DIV id="ctl00_CenterBar_fullitem1_linkPrint"> <A alt="Printer friendly version" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self"/printerfriendly.aspx?itemid=1304546","","scrollbars=yes,width=660,height=600,menubar=yes,resizeable=yes")"><IMG src="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/images/printericon.gif" galleryimg="False" />Printer friendly version</A> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV><B></B>Scientists have claimed the way fish learn could be closer to humans than previously thought.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm"><DIV>According to a study by St Andrews and Durham universities the nine-spined stickleback can compare the behaviour of other sticklebacks with their own experience and make a series of choices which can potentially lead to better food supplies.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm"><DIV>The discovery could be the first in showing an animal exhibiting an important human social learning strategy, the report, published in the journal Behavioural Ecology, claims.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm"><DIV>"The findings show that big brains, like those in humans, are not necessarily needed as a pre-requisite for cumulative culture," they write.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/environment/scientists-claim-fish-learn-like-humans--$1304546.htm"><DIV>"But our results suggest brain size isn't everything when it comes to the capacity for social learning."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08005D5C-1A85-481C-8B32-467606D2C112/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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