Is there anything in a fish's face that lets you know how it is feeling?

No. It doesn't, like, make an expression like when it is angry, like when it brings its eyebrows down...

Do fish have eyebrows?

I don't know. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I don't know.

So, fish are alive and they respond to stimuli from the environment and from other fish and other aquatic animals around them. And yet, they don't show anything in their faces to let you know what sort of day they're having. Are those fish happy? Are those fish frustrated? Do those fish feel bad about themselves? Is that what you are saying?

Yes.

Does that make you happy that fish are just floating around and you cannot tell how they feel? Or do you feel neutral about it?

Yea, it makes me feel neutral.

In the drawing that we are looking at now, the expression on this fish's face seems to indicate that he feels hungry, that he's looking back a bit, as if he's nervous that someone is following him. The way I would be nervous if I walked into a dark alley at night alone without a flashlight. Do you think that your drawing communicated that?

I would think that if it was looking back a bit, they don't really do that, fish, but they do that when they're hunting. Like when they are looking back for fish and stuff.

Or when a fish is being hunted. Maybe they're a bit nervous and they always have to watch their back. Maybe there's a shark or an eel or a barracuda on their tail.

Uh-huh.

If you had your choice of dying and coming back to life as a flowerpot or a fish, which would you prefer to be?

A flowerpot or a fish. I would be a flowerpot!

Why?

Well, because there's a lot of danger being a fish.

Don't you think being a flowerpot would be boring?

If I had the choice of turning into a flowerpot or a crocodile, I would pick the crocodile.

Why?

Because that's one of the top predators.

So, you wouldn't have any problem eating a snake or a fish or even chomping down on some sleeping man's leg? You would like that?

Yea.

You would like to hear the person screaming.

Yea.

You wouldn't have any problems with that.

No.

Would you remember your past human life?

No.

You would just say, "I'm a crocodile now and this is awesome."

(Laughing) Yea.

Getting back to the drawing. This one is, perhaps, your most simple rendering. It is done in pencil. It doesn't have many erasures. But you have managed to capture a lot of detail with just a few strokes. This fish has a lot of teeth; it almost looks like a shark, but the way the body is drawn, and it has a fin on the side that is flat, almost like a duck's foot, that indicates to me that is not a shark, right?

Yea.

It's a meat-eating fish. And you have no idea how it feels.

OK, Animal Boy is done.