What a Fish Knows
What's the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have a three-second memory? Do fishes think? Can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? Myth-busting biologist and animal behaviour expert Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea, through streams and estuaries to the other side of the aquarium glass to answer these questions and more. He upends our assumptions, revealing that fish are far from the unfeeling, dead-eyed feeding machines so many of us assume them to be. They are, in fact, sentient, aware, social and even Machiavellian - in other words, rather like us.What a Fish Knows draws on the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78607-123-1
- EAN: 9781786071231
- Produktnummer: 21813006
- Verlag: Oneworld Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist and animal behaviour expert. He has written two bestselling books on nature, Pleasurable Kingdom and Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals. He is also department chair for Animal Studies at the Humane Society of the United States. He lives in Washington, DC.
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