2007-03-23 16:57:57 · 18 answers · asked by BRIAN C 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Who taught you how to breath?
2007-03-24 04:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by danielle Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish are born knowing how to swim just like we are born knowing who are mother is. Its a trait that both parents have so its genetically encoded in its blood its brain reacts like its saying hay i am a fish i flap my fins i can get my food or hide from danger. The mother fish just lays the eggs and the father fertilizes them. The mother does not stick around to see her babies. So if for some messed up reason the fish does not know how to swim and its part of a school its considered dead weight and most of the time the fish will eat the weakest links.
2007-03-23 17:08:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Swimming is something they know instinctly. Don't forget that fish are independent creatures and so they know how to stay alive from their birth.
We can't compare the fish to human beings or birds that are so much dependent on their parents.
2007-03-26 20:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by Falcon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mummy fish,as soon as they are born she whacks them with her tail and off they go.The little soles have to swim in the right plaice of course,now stop carping on and talking a load of codswallop
2007-03-24 08:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The magic fish fairy. she spreads her wings and says, 'Fly little fishes' (knowing full well they haven't got a hope - because as we all know, fish don't have wings, they don't drink Red Bull) and as they're thrashing around, they realise that it's much easier to swim. So they do that instead.
I thought everybody knew that.......
2007-03-23 17:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by Val G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody. It's instinct and they've evolved the ability to swim and breathe underwater with gills over millions of years.
2007-03-23 17:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fish can't swim. They just sort of float about.
2007-03-23 17:12:51 · answer #7 · answered by Bacon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its operant habit. They have been born with the knowledege to comprehend how. purely like we've been born with the comprehend a thank you to cry. We did no longer might desire to get taught to do it. If it grew to become into respondant habit then, like us with walking, then fish might have study. yet thet do no longer.
2016-10-20 08:05:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same personal trainer who teaches babies how to breath.
2007-03-23 17:03:29 · answer #9 · answered by The Oak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do, as soon as I finish teaching them damned little birds to fly.
2007-03-23 17:51:24 · answer #10 · answered by PeeTee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brian,
If you really want to know, you'll have to ask either God or Mother Nature. We humans don't know everything yet.
2007-03-23 19:05:21 · answer #11 · answered by elden w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋