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7 Reddit comments about What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins:

u/askantik · 71 pointsr/likeus

For pretty much every animal we eat, there are examples like this. Maybe not a task just like this, but you get the point. We have historically and constantly underestimated the intelligence and resourcefulness of most non-human animals. Even "dumb" animals like chickens and fish perform impressive behaviors. E.g., BBC article on chickens and check out this book by an animal behaviorist about fish.

And at any rate, whether they are "smart" or not doesn't affect their ability to suffer or their desire/capacity to not suffer. I think what /u/jeegte12 was trying to say was not really about a false dichotomy like killing a dumb person versus a smart person, but rather that we should avoid killing people regardless of their intelligence-- because even a dumb person wants to live and can feel pain and suffering.

u/QuietCakeBionics · 7 pointsr/vegan

You might find this book interesting : https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Fish-Knows-Underwater-Cousins/dp/0374288216 by ethologist Jonathan Balcombe.

Also this: http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/

u/shark_to_water · 7 pointsr/DebateAVegan

It's a good example of a controversial position.

For more fun, check out this thread:

http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol1/iss3/1/

The start is an article about fish not feeling pain. It has about fifty responses, including one from the guy who wrote that book "What a Fish Knows."

It seems a moral precautionary approach is called for. If you don't know, don't kill.

u/fullmetalretard666 · 2 pointsr/Aquariums

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet but I highly recommend the book What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins. It goes into great depth about how a fish perceives.

u/Sanpaku · 2 pointsr/scuba

Recommend the 2016 book, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe.

The fish I thought had the the most inquisitive look was a ancient 1.6 m Humphead (Napoleon) wrasse, who followed our group and looked at our equipment with its eye. Sadly, endangered in its home waters due to overfishing, including with explosives & cyanide, in Indonesia, the Phillipines, and Sabah Malasia.

u/Ruufles · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

If anybody is interested in how fish think and feel then I recommend 'What a Fish Knows' by Jon Balcombe.
Although there are more than thirty thousand species of fish more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined we rarely consider how individual fishes think, feel, and behave. Balcombe upends our assumptions about fishes, portraying them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed feeding machines but as sentient, aware, social, and even Machiavellian in other words, much like us.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Fish-Knows-Underwater-Cousins/dp/0374288216

u/Chelsiukas · 1 pointr/pics

Poor fish.. Please educate yourselves about fish sentience and sensory systems. A great resource on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/What-Fish-Knows-Underwater-Cousins/dp/0374288216 A free read to start getting to know our scaly fellow earthlings: https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/fish/fish-feel-pain/