There are more than thirty thousand species of fish--more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their breathtaking diversity and beauty, we rarely consider how fish t
"It is rare to find a scientist writing with such delight about, of all things, joy in the animal world! I have rarely experienced such pleasure in reading a book. I recommend it to all animal lovers
From an expert in animal consciousness, a book that will turn the fly on the wall into the elephant in the room.For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they’re annoying, and our usu
A New York Times Bestseller 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 Know
An Observer Book of the Year 2017A Sunday Times must readA New York Times BestsellerEndorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - 'Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration
Presents a case for an ethical recognition of animals' ability to experience emotions, drawing on rigorous evidence and lighthearted anecdotes to refute popular conceptions that animal life is predomi
Extraordinary observations of animals living and behaving with feeling in our world.As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are of degree
Do baboons have a sense of right and wrong? Do cats and dogs have their feelings hurt? Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that animals, once viewed only as mindless automatons, ac
