What the fish are silent about. Guide to the life of marine inhabitants

The book of marine biologist Helen Skayles is devoted to the most common and mysterious, well-known and in some way completely unfamiliar creatures-fish. Their bewitchingly interesting life passes secretly from us, under the surface of the water, in the depths of the ocean and therefore remains largely underestimated and incomprehensible by us. The writer, being a diver, spent hundreds of hours underwater, watching the life of marine inhabitants, and now as a guide invites us to a fascinating journey through the seas and oceans, along the rivers of Europe and America, along the reefs and sea depths. We will fuse with the mantes and sharks, surprise the quick wits of the purple luxury and rejoice at the beauty and bizarre habits of various fish-from fish-tunes to pirania and deep-sea broots. And we also learn a lot of new things about why deadly poisonous fish do not poison themselves, how fish in a jamb does not encounter each other, how they manage to avoid the jaws of rapid predators, why they draw secret graffiti on their bodies (and who reads them), which ones They make sounds and how they made a deal with bacteria to glow and see in the dark.
We learn that the fish are far from as primitive creatures as they represented - they know how to count, use tools, comprehend the laws of physicists, can solve complex logical problems, have social intelligence and are capable of cooperation. Fish demonstrate such behavior that was previously considered characteristic only by people and some primates with a large brain.
On the pages of the book, we will also meet with tireless scientists of the past and present, devoting our lives to the study of marine creatures, we will learn about the most ancient fish and how the fish learned to live on land. An exciting book, saturated with a huge number of facts, will undoubtedly inspire readers to get to know these amazing creatures closer and make you think that they are much smarter and live an incomparably more complex and interesting life than it is customary to think.
• Half of all species of animals with a spine are fish.
• There are about 30,000 species of fish in the world and about the same number of birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals combined.
• Fish think, study, remember, see colors, hear and sing.

Quotes
At first glance, fish are dumb and deaf creatures. <...> In reality, fish make and hear sounds, but people needed a lot of time to realize how much the underwater world can be, partially because we are not adapted to hear with ears filled with water.

Submarine sound landscapes are very thinly arranged. Recent studies have demonstrated that this is by no means a random cacophony, the fish scream when and how they want: they adjust their voices to a common sound, like an orchestra creating a melody.

Marriage rituals of people can also occur with the participation of fishing bubbles. About 100 years ago, reusable condoms made reusable condoms from them in Europe.

The book is published in the series Animals, a soft cover with wide valves. The book is supplemented by 16 pages of full -color illustrations.

For whom
The book will be interesting to those who are not indifferent to the underwater world and its inhabitants, as well as to everyone who loves the mysterious world of nature surrounding us.

Awards, ratings
The book of the year according to the New Scientist magazine.

Expert reviews
Skals infects with his genuine admiration and reverence before the fish. In every new chapter, she introduces the reader to unexpected manifestations of fish, more and more fascinating him.
science

A delightful book that invites you to visit the amazing world of fish.
New Scientist

Exciting and informative team fish hodgepodge.
The Economist

Daring underwater trip full of piquant details.
The New York Times Book Review

This book-Akvarium is an eloquent reminder of how extraordinary fish are.
Natural History

Helen Skails invites us to plunge into the underwater and peace and discover the secret and glorious life of fish and their fascinating classes.
Coast

The book What Pisces Mounting is full of miracles. Each page is literally flooded with overflows of colors, fantastic abilities and dramatic events - so skillfully Helen Skails makes us observers of the world of fish - creatures of incredibly strange and at the same time widespread. Do you swim with a pipe or scuba gear, you see fish in an aquarium or on television, this book opens a new portal, allowing you to see the blue planet with new eyes and to love it and, moreover, the creatures inhabiting it.
Sa Montgomery, author of the bestseller Osminoga Soul

If you already love fish, wherever they swim, you will be amazed at many discoveries on these pages. If you do not love them, now you will definitely love.
Karl Safina, Ecologist

About the author
Helen Skals - a marine biologist, teacher of the University of Cambridge and, in addition, carried away by the diver. The author of publications in publications such as National Geographic, The Guardian, New Scientist and BBC Wildlife