Scientists: Fish can learn despite small brains

Scientists have claimed the way fish learn could be closer to humans than previously thought. According to a study by St Andrews and Durham universities the nine-spined stickleback can compare the behaviour of other sticklebacks with their own experience and make a series of choices which can potentially lead to better food supplies. "The findings show that big brains, like those in humans, are not necessarily needed as a pre-requisite for cumulative culture," they write...inthenews

Damn, that makes me look bad.