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What a fish knows : the inner lives of our underwater cousins / Jonathan Balcombe.
Van Pelt Library QL639.3 .B35 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balcombe, Jonathan, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fishes--Behavior.
- Fishes.
- Fishes--Physiology.
- Animal communication.
- Animal intelligence.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The author of Second Nature challenges popular misconceptions to explore the complex lives of the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship rituals and cooperative intelligence,"--NoveList.
- Contents:
- The misunderstood fish
- What a fish perceives
- What a fish feels
- What a fish thinks
- Who a fish knows
- How a fish breeds
- Fish out of water.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374288211
- 0374288216
- OCLC:
- 945884394
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