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\u201c\u2026gazing up to the night sky saying, \u2018are we alone?\u2019 \u2026well, wait a minute, look around, there's tons of fascinating life forms. We're so lucky to have all this amazing panoply of life on the planet.

I get the question\u2026 are there other humanoids out there? Or, are there other conscious beings? But we ought to be pretty grateful for what we have on this planet\u2026 there's a lot of amazing creatures and phenomena that we get to enjoy living with, if we can.\u201d \xa0- Jonathan Balcombe

Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior. He is the author of four books on the inner lives of animals, including the New York Times bestseller, What a Fish Knows. He has published over 60 scientific papers and book chapters on animal behavior and animal protection.

Jonathan has spent his life studying animals, how they think and feel and why they matter. Quite often, he focuses on the ones that most of us tend not to think about very much, like fish and in his newest book, Super Fly, flies \u2013 it comes out in May.

I thought I knew a little bit about fish, but after reading Jonathan\u2019s book and after this time spent with him, I realized that I knew very little. There are 33,000 species of fish and what many of them are capable of is absolutely mind blowing .

For eons, we have categorized species by who we deem worthy and who we don\u2019t. Fish are almost always very near or at the bottom of that list. Clearly, that is because most of us know so little about them. Jonathan knows a lot. If you haven\u2019t read his book, read it. It will astonish you.

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Jonathan can most recently be seen in the Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy.