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What a fish knows : the inner lives of our underwater cousins

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374288211
  • ISBN: 0374288216
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. The misunderstood fish -- Part II. What a fish perceives. What a fish sees ; What a fish hears, smells, and tastes ; Navigation, touch, and beyond -- Part III. What a fish feels. Pain, consciousness, and awarenes ; From stress to joy -- Part IV. What a fish thinks. Fins, scales, and intelligence ; Tools, plans, and monkey minds -- Part V. Who a fish knows. Suspended together ; Social contracts ; Cooperation, democracy, and peacekeeping -- Part VI. How a fish breeds. Sex lives ; Parenting styles -- Part VII. Fish out of water.
Target Audience Note:
1280L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 9.4 13 183879.
Subject:
Fishes Behavior
Fishes Physiology
Animal communication
Animal intelligence

Available copies

  • 13 of 13 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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