Jonathan P. Balcombe

Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior. His books include Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, The Exultant Ark, and What a Fish Knows—a New York Times best-seller now available in fifteen languages. His latest book for grown-ups, Super Fly, was published in May 2021 by Penguin Books. A children’s story book, Jake and Ava: A Boy and a Fish, is scheduled for publication in October 2021. Jonathan has published more than 60 scholarly papers and book chapters, as well as essays, opinions, and letters in popular magazines and newspapers. He does professional editing for aspiring and established authors, and he taught a course in animal sentience for the Viridis Graduate Institute and Humane Society University. He lives in Belleville, Ontario where in his spare time he enjoys biking, baking, birding, Bach, and trying to understand the neighborhood squirrels. Please visit my website www.jonathan-balcombe.com and send me an email from there.