Can fish be racist? haha
- Thread starter ss720
- Start date
So that was my problem?The more brightly colored ones tend to get the chicks.
I have a 12 gallon crate (tiny indoor pond?) with a female paradisefish and a trio of dwarf bumblebee cats. The paradisefish ignores the bumblebee cats entirely... havent seen any aggression at all from one to the other.
One day I was at Petland and shaw that they had a single baby albino bronze cory in their cichlid tank. I bought him out of sympathy, figuring he could live out a decent existence in the crate tank, figured all the tankmates would continue to be civil.
As it turned out, the paradisefish freaking hated the little cory, and really kicked his butt. A few days after I put him in the tank I noticed he wasnt visible, so I looked under the decor to find him all torn up hiding under a piece of driftwood.
Needless to say he's in his own tank now. Actually doing quite well... active, eating like a pig, growing, mostly healed up, except for a missing eye. Poor little guy, what a trooper.
One day I was at Petland and shaw that they had a single baby albino bronze cory in their cichlid tank. I bought him out of sympathy, figuring he could live out a decent existence in the crate tank, figured all the tankmates would continue to be civil.
As it turned out, the paradisefish freaking hated the little cory, and really kicked his butt. A few days after I put him in the tank I noticed he wasnt visible, so I looked under the decor to find him all torn up hiding under a piece of driftwood.
Needless to say he's in his own tank now. Actually doing quite well... active, eating like a pig, growing, mostly healed up, except for a missing eye. Poor little guy, what a trooper.
It's always better to avoid anthropomorphizing (attaching human behavioral characteristics) to lower vertebtates like fish. It's more productive to try understanding how their behaviors fit within their niche in a particular ecosystem.
Theres only one Race.
And that is the Human Race.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
And that is the Human Race.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
In reality, racists do existed in animal world. I raised a herd of Black Angus cattle and the cows always have black calves. Many years ago, one of our cows had a red calf. The mother tried to reject her calf and that red calf got the whole herd upset that they abandoned the mother and the red calf. The red calf is 100% perfect and healthy. That calf ended up as a member of the herd when she was a yearling and the herd is no longer as racists. Same thing happens to chickens as well. I raised white broilers for meat and I gets a black chicken occasionally and the white chickens often gang on and pick on the black chickens. It occurs in many species. It is not uncommon for a group reject a member because its not colored same to their group members. Like how the baboons abandoned their albino member by not grooming him or how the hippo pod push out a white hippo of the pod so he cannot socialize with the herd members.
F1, Indy 500 etc..
Joking aside, I'm not sure if this is correct, but we are a species.
And our race is determined by our skin color and features that are distinct in a specific geographical region.
But this is not important to me, I'm not a racist or anything, but there are different races, and many of them.
Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
MN,all of those examples you brought up involved animals rejecting some odd member of THEIR OWN species so I don't see how you figure it is racism.
I don't think racism is the correct term, but rejecting someone of their own species due to the color and color alone is for a lack of a better term animal racism, at least that's my thinking.
Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
