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- The original habitat of the carp that became goldfish is the eastern area of China, stretching from just below Beijing in the North to Macau in the South. The Chinese originally bred carp to eat, but over time, they began selectively breeding them for their color and body shape, eventually creating several distinct breeds of goldfish.
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History. Oscar J. Kambly originally invented goldfish crackers at Swiss biscuit manufacturer Kambly in 1958 [5][6] to celebrate his wife, who was a Pisces, an astrological symbol whose shape is of a fish. [7] .
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- As a science historian, you’ve written about esoteric subjects like 17th century mollusk expert Martin Lister. Goldfish seem comparatively banal. I gather there’s a personal backstory.
- So much for Speedy.
- Where do goldfish fit into the animal kingdom?
- In China, the golden fish takes on religious overtones.
- Let’s follow in their wake as they circulate around the world. We start with China...
- Losing their mystique and exoticism along the way, no doubt. At one time, you write, the United States government gave them away.
- Other suppliers took up the slack.
- They also have a starring role in more than 40,000 scientific papers. What makes them a good subject for experiments?
- There was a brief goldfish-swallowing fad. What prompted that?
In a fairy-tale transformation engineered by man, the dull, grey carp was bred to a metallic sheen more than a millennium ago.
"Oh, wet pet," American poet Ogden Nash wrote in pithy summation of the humble goldfish, whose habitat is, by tradition, a glass bowl anchored by the faux luxury of a gravel-bound ceramic castle. But the reality is more complex, suggests a new book by Anna Marie Roos, a professor of the history of science and medicine at the University of Lincoln, in England.
I had a pet goldfish named Speedy. I was a geeky scientist at a young age and out of curiosity, touched him. He had really rough scales, so I poured hand lotion in the water to make his scales soft...
Yes. In part, I wrote the book out of guilt for Speedy.
Goldfish are basically carp. The Chinese originally bred them to eat. Carp, which are normally grey or green, breed like crazy, and you get variations of colors and shapes. Nature plays around. They have a smattering of pigment cells that are red or gold. A mutation would have suppressed the grey pigment cells, allowing the yellow and red ones to b...
In about the ninth century, goldfish mutants, when captured by fishermen, were not eaten and [instead] released into Buddhist ponds of mercy in an act of fang sheng, or mercy release. The monks fed and kept them, so the fish were protected by not being in the open waters. Releasing an animal into such a pond of mercy was an act of self-purification...
They are domesticated in China more than a thousand years ago and come to Japan around the late 16th century. They go to Europe and beyond as a pet and living ornament for aquaria and fountains via Macao. The first drawing of goldfish in England is by botanist James Petiver in 1711. By the 19th century, they are in the States and mentioned in 1817 ...
In a publicity stunt, from 1884 to 1894, if you were a resident of Baltimore or Washington, D.C, and wrote your congressman, the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries [today the National Marine Fisheries Service] would send you goldfish. Some 20,000 were given away each year before the program was discontinued.
By the turn of the century, the Midwest had huge goldfish farms. Grassyfork Fishery in Indiana produced two million a year. Grassyfork was even a tourist attraction.
One reason is that they are good at absorbing substances, so they are used in toxicity studies. In the 19th century, for example, they were used to study digitalis dosing. They can regenerate their optic nerve, so they’re of interest in vision studies. Also, they have pretty good memories, and that makes them useful in psychology studies. Their sen...
Officially, it started in April 1939, when a Harvard freshman swallowed one on a dare. It largely died out later that year with World War II, as there were other things to think about. Any animal rights activist would be appalled. Animals are not meant for our entertainment. In 2012, a young girl in the United Kingdom was so disturbed about the cus...
- Cathy Newman
Early history of the goldfish by G.F. Hervey, who wrote “The Goldfish” book in 1948.
The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is commonly kept as a pet in indoor aquariums, and is one of the most popular aquarium fish. Goldfish released into the wild have become an invasive pest in parts of North America and Australia. [4] [5]
Goldfish ancestry goes as far back as the Chinese Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD), probably even further. Goldfish history may go back even further than the Sung (Song) Dynasty, into the T’ang Dynasty (618-907 AD), but any written records from that period are unreliable.
Nov 3, 2023 · Goldfish made it out of China and wound up in Japan in the 16th century, then eventually landed in Europe. They were introduced to each new place as pets and could be seen in fountains and...
Jun 25, 2023 · Goldfish are one of the most popular pet fish in the world, known for their bright colors and peaceful nature. But have you ever wondered where goldfish come from? The answer lies in ancient China, where they were first domesticated over a thousand years ago.
