how did they prove that its not all those fish making the waves in the ocean and ?

Question

other bodies of water

Answer 1

Try this experiment. Get a bowl full of water. Set it on a flat surface and let it settle. Give a small push and note the water sloshes back and forth.

Now imagine a giant bowl of water (the oceans, seas and other bodies of water) being pushed by the gravitational pull of the moon. This is actually what drives the tides.

As for waves, they are created by many types of energies. Earthquakes, winds, etc.

Answer 2

Fish (and birds) are where mankind's acceptance of "streamlined" comes from. This means they move through their environment with as little disturbance as possible.

Wave action is predominantly in the vertical plane (up and down). There are only a couple of aquatic animals (whales being the most obvious) that move their tails up and down for propulsion - nearly everything else uses a side-to-side motion. It's pretty hard to make a wave when you're wriggling!

The second observation would be about a pool or dish that has no lifeforms in it. It still gets waves on the suface ... so something (other than the animals and plants) must be creating them.

Answer 3

Because the tides follow the lunar orbit, even the ancient mariners had that figured out, that is where the observatories/calendars like Stonehenge came from. Lakes with no fish (from pollutiuon) at all still have waves. So can a tub of water on your porch. It requires an external force acting on the water otherwise water always seeks it's own level.

Answer 4

because they figured that it was the currents or the things in the bo9ttom of the ocean