Rory Stokes, a 15 year old student from the Australian Science and Mathematics School has put to rest the claim that goldfish have a 3 second memory.

He conducted an experiment where he associated a beacon with the feeding of fish. Over a period of three weeks he would feed the fish and activate the beacon. Six days later he returned the beacon and found the fish had retained the memory.

An interesting school science project - read the full article from the Sydney Morning Herald.

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