THERE was this interesting experiment conducted to test animal behaviors.
In a big fish tank filled with water, a large sized piranha was put into it.
A piece of glass was inserted to separate the tank into two equal halves.
The piranha was in the left half of the tank and a beautiful goldfish was put into the right side.
Common sense tells us that the piranha, upon seeing the goldfish, will attempt to eat it.
So it did a swirl and rammed into the piece of glass.
After it hit the glass, it swam in a circle and tried to go towards the goldfish.
This continued for half an hour.
After one hour, the piranha was seen still swimming towards the goldfish but it pulled back just before hitting the glass.
The piece of glass was removed.
The result was that the piranha was observed to pull back even though there was no glass.
The goldfish swam openly and freely in the presences of the carnivore.
The piranha did not attempt to go close to it.
Then, a smaller sized piranha was dropped into the tank.
In seconds, the goldfish was no more.
This experiment provided 2 learning points.
1.Age and experience does not necessarily mean you will get a good meal.
2.If we stop trying just because we failed several times, we will never get a good meal.
1 comment:
Its like the story oof how the famer will chain a young bull to a damn huge pole. It will continuously struggle for years and yet the pole wont budge. When the bull is older and stronger, they changed the pole to a thin stick, yet the bull wont even try to escape.
Same as tick in a box and tick from wild. The one in the box can only jump as high as the box, the wild one can jump maybe three times of the previous one.
:D
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