What a fish knows the inner lives of our underwater cousins

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? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams an...

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Main Author: Balcombe, Jonathan P. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
Edition:First paperback edition.
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