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Fish Cognition and Behavior, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-444-34251-2

June 2011

Wiley-Blackwell

480 pages

Description
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.

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.