Jonathan Balcombe was born in England, raised in New Zealand and Canada, lived and worked in the United States from 1987 to 2018. Jonathan currently lives in southern Ontario, where in his spare time he enjoys biking, baking, birding, Bach, and trying to understand the squirrels in his neighborhood.
He is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior. He is the author of five popular science books on the inner lives of animals, including Super Fly, Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, The Exultant Ark, and What a Fish Knows, a New York Times best-seller available in 17 foreign editions. He has published over 60 scientific papers and book chapters on animal behavior and animal protection.
Formerly Department Chair for Animal Studies with the Humane Society University, and Director of Animal Sentience with The Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, Jonathan works as an independent author, and performs editing services for aspiring and established authors. He has also served as an Associate Editor for the journal Animal Sentience, and he taught a course in animal sentience for the Viridis Graduate Institute.
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