The story and science of how animals find their way home. Home is
the place we long for most, when we feel we have travelled too far,
for too long. Since boyhood, acclaimed scientist and author Bernd
Heinrich has returned every year to a beloved patch of woods in his
native western Maine. But while it's the pull of nostalgia that
informs our desire to go back, what is it that drives the homing
instinct in animals? Heinrich explores the fascinating science
behind the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true
visual landscape memory over impossible distances; how the subtlest
of scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to
amphibians, to pinpoint their home; and how the tiniest of
songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over
vast distances. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring
return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their pond in the Alaska
tundra. With his marvellously evocative prose, Heinrich portrays
the psychological state of the newly arrived birds, articulating
just what their yearly return truly means, to the birds and to
those fortunate enough to witness this transcendently beautiful
ritual. The Homing Instinct is an enchanting study of this
phenomenon of the natural world, reminding us that to discount our
own feelings toward home is to ignore biology itself.
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