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A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
It’s flight and egg and feathers and song. It’s the demure plumage of a mountain thornbill and the extravagant tail feathers of an Indian paradise flycatcher, the solo song of a superb lyrebird and the perfectly timed duets of canebrake wrens, an osprey’s hurtling dive toward the sea, and a long-legged heron’s still, patient eyeing of the dark water.
There is no single bird way of being.
Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, Jennifer Ackerman playfully explores our dramatically shifting understanding of these magnificent animals.
‘Jennifer Ackerman knows what she’s talking about…Her knack for catching the personalities of different species in gorgeous, playful prose further collapses comfortable barriers between the human and the birdlike’ Daily Telegraph
‘The real joy of [this] book is its close attention to some of the specialists of the region… Ackerman is alive to the humour at play in field research ‘ Mark Cocker, Spectator
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‘There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.’ This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviours they’ve previously dismissed as anomalies. What they’re finding is upending the traditional view of how birds live, how they communicate, forage, court, survive. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own – deception, manipulation, kidnapping, infanticide, but also, ingenious communication between species, collaboration, altruism and play. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behaviour, birds vary.
| Weight | 0.28 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.6 × 12.6 × 3.2 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 355 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 598.15 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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