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Fast Fish

The average sized rainbow trout can accelerate from a standstill to about 20 plus mph in about one second. A larger fish can get in an extra one or two mph. If you think of this in terms of seconds, it is over 30 feet per second. Compare this to animals such as greyhounds or cheetahs; the rainbow trout is acutally faster out of the 'gate'. In addition to this, a rainbow trout can jump up to five times its length, or in human terms, around 30 feet.

Trout Senses

As humans, we believe our senses are very acute, but did you know that a rainbow trout's senses are around 600 to 700 times our own? We can't begin to imagine how it perceives its environment. It does not have a cerebrum yet can learn from experiences extremely fast.

Rainbow trout can smell the difference between certain plant life as well as the taste of different types of aquatic life. It develops a preference for a particular food source as it evolves. In fact, its whole life is devoted to using its bodily functions to sense food. Apart from taste and smell using its mouth and nostrils, Rainbow trout can also taste and smell using other parts of its body.