Can Fish Be Playful?

Can Fish Be Playful? Biologists have documented fish playing with a bottom-weighted thermometer and other objects. Play, like much of animals’ psychology including emotions, motivations, perceptions and intellect, is part of their evolutionary history and not just random, meaningless behavior. Can fish show affection to humans? Researchers have found that fish recognize each other and

Can I Pet My Fish?

Can I Pet My Fish? “It is a basic characteristic of animal behavior that animals will approach desirable things and retreat from undesirable ones,” he said, adding that the fish “appears to like the touch because s/he swims back to the hand repeatedly.” Can you pet a pet fish? Some fish do enjoy being petted.