On this edition of Conversations, Jonathan Balcombe talks with host Dan Skinner about “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects.” Balcombe is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior, and is the author of four popular science books on the inner lives of animals including the bestselling “What a Fish Knows.”
Conversations: Jonathan Balcombe, "Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Sucessful Insects"
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