Monday, June 14, 7-9pm, Pure Joy Massage and Yoga, 6260 S. Sunbury Rd., Westerville, Ohio (wearing masks and keeping a proper distance) or you may join us via Zoom

With the documentary “Seaspiracy” out and this being a New York Times bestseller book, we thought this might make for a great discussion. It came out in 2017 and is available on Kindle, or you can get either a new or used book.

Here is a synopsis of what is in What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins.

Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes.

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.

You may meet us at Pure Joy Studio or join us via Zoom.

Hosted by Columbus Vegan Meetup.