“Most Eaten, Least Heard: The Inner Lives of Fishes”

In his talk Jonathan combines science with story-telling to explore the colorful lives of the least understood (and most maligned) vertebrates on Earth. 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. Balcombe’s talk will blow your fishy biases clear out of the water. Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe is a passionate advocate for animals and their living spaces or living species. His New York Times best-selling new book, What A Fish Knows, celebrates the rich and complex lives of our underwater cousins, and, like his earlier books, Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, and The Exultant Ark, presages a revolution in the human-animal relationship.