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Tuco and the Scattershot World - A Life with Birds (Paperback)
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Tuco and the Scattershot World - A Life with Birds (Paperback)
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List price R334
Loot Price R295
Discovery Miles 2 950
You Save R39 (12%)
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For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with
Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking such questions as
"Whaddya know?" and announcing "Party time!" when guests showed up
at Brett's farm. Although Brett bought Tuco on a whim as a pet, he
gradually realizes the enormous obligation he has to the bird and
learns that the parrot is a lot more complex than he thought.
Simultaneously a biography of this singular bird and a history of
bird/dinosaurs and the human relationship with birds, Tuco also
explores how we "other" the world abusing birds, landscapes, and
each other including Brett's own experience with a rare genetic
condition that turned his early years into an obstacle course of
bullying and nurtured his affinity for winged creatures. The book
also provides an in-depth examination of our ideas about knowledge,
language, and intelligence (including commentary from Tuco himself)
and how as we learn more about animal languages and intelligence we
continually shift our definitions of them in order to retain our
"superiority." As Brett says, "Whaddya know? Not much. I don't even
know what knowledge is. I know only the magic . . . and the
mysteries." By turns provocative, profound, hilarious, and deeply
moving, this fascinating memoir will remain with the reader long
after the last page has been turned.
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