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Fish Cognition and Behavior Hardback - 2011

Name: Fish Cognition and Behavior
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Author: Culum Brown
ISBN: 9781444332216

by Culum Brown; Kevin Laland; Jens Krause

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From the publisher

In the second edition of this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including:

Foraging skills
Predator recognition
Social organisation and learning
Welfare and pain

Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition.

Fish Cognition and Behavior, Second Edition contains essential information for all fish biologists and animal behaviorists and contains much new information of commercial importance for fisheries managers and aquaculture personnel. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological sciences, fisheries and aquaculture are studied and taught will find it an important addition to their shelves.

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Reviews of the First Edition

"Fish Cognition and Behavior is an essential read for anyone interested in fish welfare, psychology, sensory biology, neurobiology, conservation, and the application of pure research.''
--The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Fish Cognition and Behavior ... will open the eyes of many readers to the importance of fish...in studying and understanding various aspects of animal cognition."
--Animal Behaviour

"Insightful and fascinating questions are presented together with useful suggestions for future research directions on fish cognition... sufficiently entertaining to be read cover to cover."
--Fish and Fisheries

"This is one of the best-edited and most valuable volumes I have encountered for those interested in the behavior of fish."
--Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries

The study of animal cognition has until recently been largely confined to birds and mammals; a historical bias which has led to the belief that learning plays little or no part in the development of behavior in fishes and reptiles. Research in recent decades has begun to redress this misconception and it is now recognized that fishes exhibit a rich array of sophisticated behavior with impressive learning capabilities entirely comparable with those of mammals and other terrestrial animals.

Building on the very well-received First Edition, and covering all major areas of fish learning, all chapters in this brand new edition of Fish Cognition and Behavior have been revised and updated by an internationally recognized team of contributing authors, with the addition of three brand new chapters, covering personality traits and behavior, lateralization of cognitive functions in fish, and cognition and welfare.

This Second Edition of Fish Cognition and Behavior is essential reading for all fish biologists and ethologists, and contains much information of commercial importance for fisheries managers and aquaculture personnel. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological sciences, aquaculture and fisheries are studied and taught will find this book an extremely important addition to their shelves.

Details

Title Fish Cognition and Behavior
Author Culum Brown; Kevin Laland; Jens Krause
Binding Hardback
Edition 2nd Edition
Pages 480
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date 2011-08-22
Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781444332216 / 144433221X
Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
Dimensions 9.7 x 6.8 x 1.1 in (24.64 x 17.27 x 2.79 cm)
Category Technology & Industrial Arts
Library of Congress subjects Fishes - Behavior, Cognition in animals
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011002188
Dewey Decimal Code 597

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Choice, 03/01/2012, Page 0
Reference and Research Bk News, 10/01/2011, Page 231

About the author

Culum Brown is at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Kevin Laland is at the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.

Jens Krause is at the Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, and also at Humboldt University, both in Berlin, Germany.

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