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Bird Minds - Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds (Paperback)
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Bird Minds - Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds (Paperback)
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In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan
demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be.
She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception,
problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds
cooperate and defend each other, and exceptional ones go fishing by
throwing breadcrumbs in the water, extract poisonous parts from
prey and use tools to crack open eggshells and mussels. Kaplan
brings together evidence of many such cognitive abilities,
suggesting plausible reasons for their appearance in Australian
birds. Bird Minds is the first attempt to shine a critical and
scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land
birds. In this fascinating volume, the author also presents recent
changes in our understanding of the avian brain and links these to
life histories and longevity. Following on from Kaplan's
well-received books on the Australian Magpie and the Tawny
Frogmouth, as well as two earlier titles on birds, Bird Minds
contends that the unique and often difficult conditions of
Australia's environment have been crucial for the evolution of
unusual complexities in avian cognition and behaviour.
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