Jonathan Balcombe
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Description
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
352 pages
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"For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution. Along the way,...
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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"In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes. Although there are more than thirty thousand species of fish?more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined?we rarely consider how individual fishes think, feel, and behave. Balcombe...