美國教授花30美元教會金魚"踢足球"

Albert, a goldfish, holds the Guinness World Record for "fish with the largest repertoire of tricks."　Albert, which has since passed away, was trained by Dean Pomerleau, creator of the R2 Fish School.

一隻名叫艾爾波特的金魚榮獲一項吉尼斯世界紀錄的頭銜—“世界上技能最全的金魚”。艾爾波特在不久前離開了“人間”，他的主人迪恩 波默洛創辦了一所名叫R2的"金魚培訓學校"。

Pomerleau, a computer scientist living near Pittsburgh, first began training fish after his son, Kyle, won two goldfish at a fair in 2005. "The kids wanted a dog, so I tried to make the fish more interesting," he explains. Using a homemade wand loaded with fish food and lots of positive reinforcement, he trained them to do tricks.

波默洛是一名計算機科學家，居住在匹茲堡附近。2005年，他的兒子在集市上贏得了兩隻金魚，他就從那個時候開始訓練金魚。他說：“我的兒子想要一隻狗，所以我就訓練金魚，把金魚當狗養。”迪恩 波默洛把魚食包在自制的“馴魚棒”上，在食物的刺激下，金魚學會了一些技能。

　In total, it'll take about two months for most 2- to 6-inch fish to learn all nine tricks in the kit. The kit, which retails for $30 at , comes with a 45-minute DVD, a training manual, a feeding wand and more than 20 accessories.

一般來說，教具套裝能夠保證普通的2-6英寸大小的金魚在兩個月內學會九種技能(其中包括足球)。教具套裝在R2金魚培訓學校"的網站上零售價是30美元，包括一張長達45分鐘的DVD，一本訓練手冊，一根魚食棒和20多件小工具。

More than 48,000 people have watched Albert do the trick on YouTube. "I truly believe I've seen my fish perk up after I started training them," says Pomerleau.

現在，已經有4萬8千人在視頻網站YouTube 上觀看艾爾波特的金魚秀。波默洛說：“我相信金魚喜歡在大家面前表演，我訓練它們的時候，它們變得非常活躍”。