Back in October of 2016 at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Balcombe, author of “What a Fish Knows,” presented an overview of some of the material he included in his highly praised recent book about fish behavior and cognition.
Many of my fondest childhood memories involve the sea and its myriad fishes. My father was commercial fisherman. His father was a commercial fisherman. My mother worked in the offices of Bumble Bee Seafoods. Many of my aunts, uncles and cousins either caught fish or worked in fish canneries for their livings. We all lived […]
If you live along the Florida coast, plan to be spending some time along the Florida coast, or simply have an interest in marine species of fish – particularly those inhabiting the waters off the Florida coast – then David B. Snyder, George H. Burgess, and Johns Hopkins University Press have a new book that may greatly interest you: “Marine Fishes of Florida.”
Just what would you do for a pet fish? Would you pay $100 for one? $1000? $10,000? Would you lie? Cheat? Steal? Would you kidnap another person? Would you kill for one? While this may seem hyperbolic, when it comes to the Asian Arowana, the subject of Emily Voigt’s The Dragon Behind the Glass; A […]