A preliminary study of a shoal of ten flesh-and-blood sticklebacks shows that they do indeed mingle with therobot.

对一个有十条鲜活的棘鱼鱼群的初步研究显示，他们确实和那条机器鱼混在了一起。

But the sticklebacks in noisy tanks spent more time attacking what's not for dinner, like bits of algae.

但是在有噪音鱼缸里的三刺鱼，花更多的时间攻击那些并非作为食物的猎物，比如小块的水藻。

Kevin Laland of st Andrews University, who also took part in the study, said: "Nine-spined sticklebacks may be the geniuses of the fish world."

圣安德鲁斯大学的凯文·拉兰德(Kevin Laland)也参加了这项研究，他说：“九刺鱼可能是鱼类的天才。”

From their own experience the sticklebacks had learned that feeder A gave more worms, but by watching, they could see that feeder B was now more plentiful.

九叶穿柳鱼根据自己的经验知道饲料箱A有更多的虫子，但是饲料箱调换了位置之后，它们能发现饲料箱B现在的虫子更多。

They're small in size but big in mind: sticklebacks display a remarkably human-like intelligence when it comes to searching for food, according to scientists in the UK.

他们身材较小，但头脑发达：英国科学家指出，刺鱼在寻找食物时能明显表现出人类般的智能。