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Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

THE SECRET LIVES OF FISH! Jonathan Balcombe, PhD | Environment | Animals | Vegan | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire

Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

Michael Sandler

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4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever wondered what the lives of underwater brethren, the fish are like, then do we have the holy mackerel show for you.

Today we’ll be talking with Jonathan Balcombe, director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and the author of four books, including Second Nature, Pleasurable Kingdom, and What a Fish Knows, a fascinating book I found incredibly hard to put down.

Today we’ll be talking about the inner lives of our underwater cousins, what a fish knows, thinks, feels, and what’s life really like, a few feet, to many fathoms below the sea.

That plus we’ll talk about why Nemo’s dad Marlin, may have really been Marlette, fish and optical illusions, mucus and jolts, carp and Mozart, democracy and robo-fish, ebay rankings for cleaner fish, the super-dad of the sea world, the animal Einstein Olympics, what Yao Ming, Jackie Chan and David Beckham have in common, and why male bulldogs may just want to shorten their EOD’s!

Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

  1. What happened to Jonathan Balcombe at 8 years old
  2. What was the goldfish incident
  3. Why we’ve missed the boat on fishes
  4. How there are fish that can literally fly
  5. Why there have been fish over 200 million years ago that had umbilical cords
  6. David Attenborough announcer had the fish named him
  7. What is the menhaden?
  8. What we can learn about flounder and other flat fish?
  9. What happens to flounder in puberty
  10. What can swordfish do with their eyes
  11. What’s the Abyss and how much life is there?
  12. What can sharks do with their eyes to see in the dark
  13. Walking sharks?
  14. Rose lipped bat fish?
  15. What can we learn from fish and optical illusions?
  16. How can fish hear?
  17. What kind of music do Koi like?
  18. Why fish grow faster with music, particularly Mozart
  19. What is scary stuff from fish?
  20. What’s a fish’s sense of taste like?
  21. How fish navigate via the sun, and magnetism
  22. What are cleaner fishes?
  23. What can we learn about cooperation from groupers and moray eels.
  24. What is a robofish?
  25. What can we learn from Lauri Cook about Beta-Fish and what’s the beta-fish myth? (aka Siamese Fighting Fish)
  26. How do fish use tools?
  27. Can Tiger Fish catch birds?
  28. Who is Christina Zenato and what does she do with sharks?
  29. What can we learn about changing sex and Nemo
  30. How a puffer fish create mandalas
  31. Why is the seahorse the super-dad?
  32. What Carl Safina author of Beyond Words found with trawlers and Green Peace in the Arctic
  33. What do trawlers do?
  34. What happens when fishing shrimp aka shrimping
  35. What is by-catch
  36. Why is shrimping so harmful to the environment
  37. Why is eating tuna like eating tigers?
  38. What does Yao Min, Jackie Chan and David Beckham have to do with shark fins?
  39. What a Fish Knows is now a New York Times best-seller, visit jonathanbalcombe.com and www.jonathan-balcombe.com – come join his newsletter!

Jonathan Balcome, PhD shares the incredible lives & scientifically proven intelligence of fish & what it means for us! Environment | Ecology | Vegan | Vegetarian | Inspirational | Motivational | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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