2019 Printing - Reef Fish Behavior presents an overview of what is presently known about the nature of reef fishes for recreational divers, underwater naturalists, photographers, and budding marine biologists. The 448-page edition includes 588 photos, emphasizes reef fish life cycles, reproduction, cleaning symbiosis, colors & camouflage, senses and sound communications, marine wildlife management plus 16 fish family overviews. It is meant to serve as a companion reference to  Reef Fish Identification Florida Caribbean Bahamas 4th edition . The second edition of Reef Fish Behavior is a 447-page compendium of wonderfully illustrated fish behaviors. Documenting reproduction, feeding, camouflage, symbiosis and other aspects of fish lifestyle, the book is further organized into behaviors of many of the species typically found on coral reefs. Capturing the behavioral diversity represented in this book is the result of incalculable hours in the water, a keen eye, vast knowledge of marine life behavior, and pure passion. -- Stephen Frink - Alert Diver Q4 Fall 2019 Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout, the fully updated and expanded second edition of Reef Fish Behavior: Florida Caribbean Bahamas is impressively informative and exceptionally well organized, making it unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library collections. -- Midwest Book Review Exactly 20 years after the publication of the 1st edtiion, New World Publications is releasing a new, updated and enlarged 2nd edition of Reef Fish Behavior Florida Caribbean Bahamas. The new, 448-page edition includes 588 photos, emphasizes reef fish life cycles, reproduction, cleaning symbiosis, colors & camouflage, senses and sound communications, marine wildlife management plus 17 fish family overviews. Since the publication of the first edition, notable advances in science have lead to greater understanding of reef fish behavior. DNA markers for tracking fish larvae have helped our understanding of larval transport and its crucial role establishing and maintaining reef fish communities. Lab and field studies in the Pacific have revealed a more complex relationship between species in cleaning behavior. Science and local conservation efforts in the Cayman Islands and Belize have also yielded new information on grouper and snapper spawning aggregations. Ned DeLoach is co-author with Paul Humann of nine marine life identification books including the three-volume Caribbean Reef Set. A veteran of 50 years of underwater adventure Ned has also written Reef Fish Behavior and 11 editions of Diving Guide to Underwater Florida. When not traveling the world diving, Ned and his wife Anna makes their home in Jacksonville, Florida.