Fish intelligence in paradise fish ("Macropodus opercularis") which avoid places where they have experienced a single attack by a predator and continue to avoid for many months. A number of studies have shown that fish can retain information for months or years. Anecdotally, channel catfish ("Ictalurus punctatus") can remember the human voice call announcing food five years after last hearing that call. Goldfish remember the colour of a tube dispensing food one year after the last tube presentation. Sockeye salmon still react to a light signal that precedes food arrival up to eight months since the last reinforcement. Some common rudd and
Fish drum Fish drum The fish drum () is a Chinese percussion instrument. The name actually designates two rather different instruments, a membranophone and an idiophone. The membranophone fish drum is the symbol of Elder Zhang Guo, one of the Eight Immortals. This drum is a long and slender piece of bamboo with a dried fish skin stretched over one end. Two smaller pieces of bamboo resembling golf clubs are used as Castanets. There is also the idiophone, which is also called a wooden fish. This type of fish drum is used to accompany performers of "changben" or Chinese narrative ballads. They