Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fish Cognition and Behaviour / Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, Jens Krause -- Learning of Foraging Skills by Fish / Kevin Warburton, Roger Hughes -- Learned Defences and Counterdefences in Predator-Prey Interactions / Jennifer L Kelley, Anne E Magurran -- Learning about Danger: Chemical Alarm Cues and Threat-Sensitive Assessment of Predation Risk by Fishes / Grant E Brown, Maud C O Ferrari, Douglas P Chivers -- Learning and Mate Choice / Klaudia Witte, Sabine N̲bel -- Aggressive Behaviour in Fish: Integrating Information about Contest Costs / Yuying Hsu, Ryan L Earley, Larry L Wolf -- Personality Traits and Behaviour / Sergey Budaev, Culum Brown -- The Role of Learning in Fish Orientation / Lucy Odling-Smee, Stephen D Simpson, Victoria A Braithwaite -- Social Recognition of Conspecifics / Sín W Griffiths, Ashley Ward -- Social Organisation and Information Transfer in Schooling Fish / Christos C Ioannou, Iain D Couzin, Richard James, Darren P Croft, Jens Krause -- Social Learning in Fishes / Culum Brown, Kevin Laland -- Cooperation and Cognition in Fishes / Michael S Alfieri, Lee A Dugatkin -- Machiavellian Intelligence in Fishes / Redouan Bshary -- Lateralization of Cognitive Functions in Fish / Angelo Bisazza, Culum Brown -- Brain and Cognition in Teleost Fish / Cristina Broglio, Antonia Gomez, Emilio Dur̀n, Cosme Salas, Fernando Rodriguez -- Fish Behaviour, Learning, Aquaculture and Fisheries / Anders Fern̲, Geir Huse, Per Johan Jakobsen, Tore S Kristiansen, Jonatan Nilsson -- Cognition and Welfare / Lynne U Sneddon.

In the second edition of fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: Foraging skills, Predator recognition, Social organisation and learning, Welfare and pain. Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition. Fish Cognition and Behavior, contains essential information for all fish biologists and animal behaviorists and contains much new information of commercial importance for fisheries managers and aquaculture personnel. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological sciences, fisheries and aquaculture are studied and taught will find it an important addition to their shelves.