Fish Cognition and Behavior

Culum Brown

ISBN 10: 144433221X / ISBN 13: 9781444332216

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2011

About this Item

Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition. Series: Fish and Aquatic Resources. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PSVP; PSVW1; TVT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 170 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1170. . 2011. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781444332216

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fish Cognition and Behavior
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144433221X
• ISBN 13: 9781444332216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.