(Ebook) Fish Cognition and Behavior by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, Jens Krause ISBN 9780470996041, 9781405134293, 1405134291, 0470996048

(Ebook) Fish Cognition and Behavior by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, Jens Krause ISBN 9780470996041, 9781405134293, 1405134291, 0470996048

I love this book. It's thick and wordy and makes me feel smart just holding it. This is a really easy book to read (as textbooks go) and it's certainly a lot easier than finding and reading all the primary literature on fish cognition. I especially enjoyed the chapters on social organisation and Machiavellian intelligence; they were well written and drew some interesting conclusions. It's great that Blackwell Publishing is putting out these really definitive volumes on aquatic animals. (Check it out at [...]/fish)Having said this, like all textbooks Fish Cognition and Behavior is pretty pricey. I wanted hard copies of both Fish Cognition and Fish Welfare since they'll be my staple reference books for the next few years, so I decided to buy. But if you're only after some general information or a quick perusal then both of these books are available online for free elsewhere, with part versions on Google Books and full versions available at [...]