The little white attic

After writing about fishes and their social relationships, Jonathan Balcombe devotes Part VI to fishes’ sexual behaviours and parenting styl...

In Part V of What a Fish Knows , Jonathan Balcombe writes about fishes in a community—with company/tank mates or in a shoal or school of fis...

After discussing fish feelings, Jonathan Balcombe moves onto fish cognition: What are fishes’ mental abilities?  “Here’s an example of fi...

As I read Jonathan Balcombe’s What a Fish Knows , I find it useful to have my phone next to me, to google images of the fish species he’s ta...

Jonathan Balcombe writes about the debate over whether fishes can feel pain. One of the main points of What a Fish Knows is that, yes, fish...

I’m reading What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins  by Jonathan Balcombe. Why? Since you ask, I want to learn about fi...

Himadri has just said my blog is becoming more esoteric by day.  I suppose it is.  The thing with me is, if I’m fascinated by something, I...

I’m reading chapter 5 “Making Colors” of Other Minds .  Peter Godfrey-Smith now focuses on cuttlefish, because among cephalopods, they are ...

Why do I seem to be “obsessed” with octopuses? Because they are cool animals—they are masters of camouflage and escape, they have eyes simil...

Bill, 1 of the people working at the aquarium, makes the decision of switching tanks for Octavia and Karma. “Bill had made the right choic...

Recently I've just been to The Deep, an aquarium in Hull. Here are the 2 videos I've made:

I’ve just read a very sad chapter in The Soul of an Octopus .  Female octopuses die a few months after laying their eggs—they spend all ene...

Before going to the main point, I’d like to say that The Soul of an Octopus is a very good book. It is less about octopus facts than about ...

I’m on a break, after finishing filming on Monday night 18/2.  Currently reading The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. There are lots...

(chronological, more or less)  1/ Choosing Adam, my boyfriend One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.  2/ Rereading Lolita Nabokov has...

From Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare: 1/ “The beluga is the most vocal of all whales, known by sailors as the canary of the sea......