Acclaimed author Jonathan Balcombe will be lecturing on June 13th at the next meeting of the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii (Free and Open to the Public), where he will take us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal surprising capabilities of fishes. Although there are more than 30,000 species of fishes, more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined, humans rarely view fishes as being individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. "What a Fish Knows" upends our common biases toward fishes as primitive and dull, instead showing them to be sentient, aware, social, and sometimes even Machiavellian!



Jonathan Balcombe is the director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for for Science and Policy and the author of numerous books, including "Second Nature", "Pleasurable Kingdom" and the newly released New York Times best seller "What a Fish Knows". Jonathan Balcombe has three biology degrees, including a PhD in ethology from the University of Tennessee, where he studied communication in bats. A popular commentator, he has appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, on BBC and the National Geographic Channel, and in several documentaries. He has contributed features and opinions to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, as well as many other publications. You can find him on Facebook, follow him on Twitter at @Jonathanpb1959, and visit his website at jonathan-balcomb.com.



Join us for the lecture at at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 404 Kapahulu Avenue, Honolulu.



Directions: Amble down the long driveway between the Golf Course and the Waikiki-Kapahulu Library. The clubhouse is all the way at the end.



This lecture is Free and Open to the Public! Parking is free, too.



Lecture sponsored by the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii.



Please no pets allowed and no food or drink on the wooden floors (per our contract to use this facility.)