What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
ISBN-10
0374288216
ISBN-13
9780374288211
Category
Nature
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2016-06-07
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Jonathan Balcombe

Description

An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior

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