In “Hooked on a Myth”, Victoria Braithwaite says Are Nonhuman animals Conscious? I agree with her argument that fish feel pain and that fish are conscious, but I feel like she could’ve taken the argument a lot further than what she did. She talks about how fish feel pain and she uses the evidence of how they injected bee venom under the skin of the trout . When the fish started to feel the bee venom their gills beat faster, they rub the affected area on the walls of their tank, and lose interest in food, but when they are given the the painkillers they start to act normal again. Yet she never really gave enough evidence to determine that fish are conscious.
Jeremy Rifkin the author of “A Change of Heart about Animals uses research that he found about different animals to persuade the audience into thinking that animals feel pain, but what he also does is use the evidence about the birds Abel and Betty and which hook that they would rather use to get food. He also talks about Koko the 300 pound gorilla who was taught sign language and mastered more than 1,000 signs and can also understand several thousand english words. To me that is how you persuade people into thinking that animals are and can be smart. Braithwaite only used one piece of evidence and it was: They can learn geometrical relationships and landmarks- and then use these to generate a …show more content…
Fish can perform multiple complex task “simultaneously” due to cerebral lateralization , a trait that was until recently thought to be uniquely human.They can recall the location of objects using features, a capacity developed by humans at approximately the age of six;and they have excellent long-term memories. They can cooperate with another and show signs of Machiavellian intelligence such as cooperation and reconciliation”; and can use tools, another in a long list of skills that was supposed to be unique to
Jeremy Rifkin the author of “A Change of Heart about Animals uses research that he found about different animals to persuade the audience into thinking that animals feel pain, but what he also does is use the evidence about the birds Abel and Betty and which hook that they would rather use to get food. He also talks about Koko the 300 pound gorilla who was taught sign language and mastered more than 1,000 signs and can also understand several thousand english words. To me that is how you persuade people into thinking that animals are and can be smart. Braithwaite only used one piece of evidence and it was: They can learn geometrical relationships and landmarks- and then use these to generate a …show more content…
Fish can perform multiple complex task “simultaneously” due to cerebral lateralization , a trait that was until recently thought to be uniquely human.They can recall the location of objects using features, a capacity developed by humans at approximately the age of six;and they have excellent long-term memories. They can cooperate with another and show signs of Machiavellian intelligence such as cooperation and reconciliation”; and can use tools, another in a long list of skills that was supposed to be unique to