"Fishes are gaining academic respect" by Jonathan Balcombe

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Balcombe, Jonathan (2017) Fishes are gaining academic respect. Animal Sentience 8(7)

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Jonathan Balcombe, In praise of fishes: Précis of What a fish knows (Balcombe 2016)

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I respond to five commentaries on my 2016 book What a Fish Knows. The commentaries express more harmony than dissent about my interpretation of fishes as cognitive, aware individuals deserving better treatment by humankind.

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Jonathan Balcombe is an ethologist and author of several books on animals’ capacity to think, feel and experience pleasure. His most recent book, What a Fish Knows, explores the remarkable lives of the planet’s most misunderstood and maligned vertebrates. Balcombe lectures widely, and currently teaches a course in animal sentience for the Viridis Graduate Institute. www.jonathan-balcombe.com

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