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by Jonathan Balcombe (Author)
A quirky, intimate, and eye-opening look into the ways of thinking like a fish.
An extract from the much-loved modern classic on the subject of fish consciousness, What a Fish Knows.
Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? Jonathan Balcombe dives in among our marine cousins to explore the essential questions of how fish perceive and process the world.
Author Biography
Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior. His books include Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, The Exultant Ark, What a Fish Knows--a New York Times bestseller now available in fifteen languages--and Super Fly. He has published more than sixty scholarly papers and book chapters, as well as essays, opinions, and letters in popular magazines and newspapers. He lives in Belleville, Ontario, where in his spare time he enjoys biking, baking, birding, Bach, and trying to understand the neighborhood squirrels.
