A lot more to fish like Nemo’s Dory than ‘just keep swimming’

Finding Nemo character Dory is not representative of her kind, according to a new study that proves fish are more intelligent than previously thought.

A lot more to fish like Nemo’s Dory than ‘just keep swimming’

The popular Disney film depicts Dory as a typical fish, forgetting her surr-oundings and circumstances almost instantly due to a “three-second memory”.

That image could be a thing of the past thanks to scientists who have uncovered the first evidence that fish are able to process multiple objects at once.

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