• Question: How do fish react when they hear a human sound?

    Asked by claudiasandra to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Nathan Green

      Nathan Green answered on 18 Mar 2013:


      Whether human or not, fish like most creature are instinctively risk averse (i.e. scared) when they hear or see something new or loud. The first instinct is to run away/swim to safety and then think about what it was afterwards. If they hang around it may be too late and they get eaten.

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