Claim Now Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide Brought To You By Gene Helfman Displayed As Audio Book

fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of

fishor fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species, This is but one of many things the authors of this fascinatingly informative book reveal in answering common and notsocommon questions about this ubiquitous group of animals,

Fishes range in size from tiny gobies to the massive Ocean Sunfish, which weighs thousands of pounds, They live in just about every body of water on the planet, Ichthyologists Gene Helfman and Bruce Collette provide accurate, entertaining, and sometimes surprising answers to overquestions about these water dwellers, such as "How many kinds of fishes are there" "Can fishes breathe air" "How smart are fishes" and "Do fishes feel pain" They explain how bony fishes evolved, the relationship between them and sharks, and why there is so much color variation among species.
Along the way we also learn about the Devils Hole Pupfish, which has the smallest range of any vertebrate in the world Lota lota, the only freshwater fish to spawn under ice the Candiru, a pencilthin Amazonian catfish that lodges itself in a very personal place on male bathers and must be removed surgically and many other curiosities.


With more thanphotographsincluding two fullcolor photo galleriesand the most uptodate facts on the world's fishes from two premier experts, this fun book is the perfect bait for any curious naturalist, angler, or aquarist.
Gene Helfman is an animal behaviorist turned conservation biologist, With a PhD in Ecology from Cornell University, Gene was on the faculty of the University of Georgia for thirty years, authoring four books on fish and marine conservation and dozens of related scientific papers.
He spent much of his professional career underwater demonstrating that fish are smarter than conventionally thought, In an effort to get the message to a larger audience, he has turned to writing screenplays and novels, on the premise that people read fiction than non fiction.
Gene and his wife Dr, Judy Meyer, an aquatic ecologist, live on Lopez Island in Washington State, .