Jonathan Balcombe is the director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and the author of four books, including Second Nature and Pleasurable Kingdom. A popular radio guest, he has also appeared on the National Geographic Channel and in several documentaries, and he is a frequent contributor of features and opinions to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,Nature, and more.
An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior
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 think, feel, and behave. In What a Fish Knows, the ethologist Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal what fishes can do, how they do it, and why. Introducing the latest revelations in animal behavior and biology, Balcombe upends our assumptions about fish, exposing them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed creatures but as sentient, aware, social--even Machiavellian. They conduct elaborate courtship rituals and develop lifelong bonds with shoal-mates. They also plan, hunt cooperatively, use tools, punish wrongdoers, curry favor, and deceive one another. Fish possess sophisticated senses that rival our own. The reef-dwelling damselfish identifies its brethren by face patterns visible only in ultraviolet light, and some species communicate among themselves in murky waters using electric signals. Highlighting these breakthrough discoveries and others from his own encounters with fish, Balcombe inspires a more enlightened appraisal of marine life.
An illuminating journey into the world of underwater science, What a Fish Knows will forever change your view of our aquatic cousins--your pet goldfish included.
陆生生物和水生生物天然相近,又天生远离。被空气环绕的我们和被水包围的他们,生活在两个世界。很多时候,我们无法像抚摸猫咪一样,抚摸一条鱼,即使养作宠物,我们也只能隔着玻璃,凝视这个另一世界的生物。 鱼给我的第一印象是美,想来一种给人以美的动物,实在应该被好好对...
評分本文作者:喵鱼酱 (微博@喵鱼酱-再努力一些 / 知乎@喵鱼酱) 我们或多或少听说过海豚的聪明,是的,它们的确很聪明。那么同样生活在水里的鱼类呢?它们没有眼睑,看起来目光呆滞,情绪从无波澜,只有在小嘴微张的时候才显得一脸惊愕。它们似乎没有记忆,也没有思维能力,在水...
評分鱼作为相对容易饲养的宠物,乃至食物,经常出现在人们的生活中。而许多人或许是出自故意,常常将其形容成“无脑”的生物,以说服自己忽略它们的感受,放心大胆地吃掉它们--甚至部分素食主义者也认同这一观点。然而,最终足以让人大跌眼镜的是,那些将鱼当作情感伙伴的人说得没...
評分《鱼什么都知道》 鱼不止有7秒的记忆 巴尔科姆博士的这本书既包括深度研究,又有趣闻轶事;它深深地印证了我们这些轻潜水员和接触鱼类的人早已熟知的事情:鱼是有意识、有感觉的生物,它们的意识和感觉一点也不少于陆地上的生物。它们保护自己的巢穴,忠诚于伴侣,认识自己部落...
對於這種pop science讀物來講,信息量還挺大。就是作者的PETA腔太可怕,分分鍾要把魚描繪成人類 -- 人類很好嗎?像人類我們纔能少點屠殺嗎?如果沒有這可怕的腔調大概可以是4星的。
评分關於魚類的感知覺、情緒、認知能力、行為、與人類的關係 提供瞭很多科學研究者與他們新近的研究 作為一本概括性的書 結構與內容選取不錯 有很多具體的例證
评分因為作者實在太執著於解釋悲壯的海洋倫理學,又加上讀得太慢,一度想打3星。然鵝最後兩章講的sex life和parenting真是大開眼界,附錄配圖直接挽迴瞭5星!(為何絲毫不提河魚,人傢不是fishie麼?你再如何勸說,然鵝我還是愛吃????????
评分關於魚類的感知覺、情緒、認知能力、行為、與人類的關係 提供瞭很多科學研究者與他們新近的研究 作為一本概括性的書 結構與內容選取不錯 有很多具體的例證
评分Pop science無端多瞭許多說教
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