Fish Have Feelings, Too: The Inner Lives Of Our 'Underwater Cousins'

WHAT DOES A FISH THINK AND FEEL?

“Thanks to the breakthroughs in ethology, sociobiology, neurobiology and ecology, we can now better understand what the world looks like to fish,” says Jonathan Balcombe, the director of animal sentience for the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy in the US.

In his new book, What A Fish Knows: The Inner Lives Of Our Underwater Cousins, Balcombe presents evidence that fish have a conscious awareness � or “sentience” � that allows them to experience pain, recognize individual humans and have memory.

He argues that humans should consider the moral implications of how we catch and farm fish.

Read more here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/20/482468094/fish-have-feelings-too-the-inner-lives-of-our-underwater-cousins

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Jonathan Balcombe, author of What A Fish Knows, says that fish have a conscious awareness � or “sentience” � that allows them to experience pain, recognize individual humans and have memory.

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/20/482468094/fis..

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