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Woody's Last Laugh - How the Extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker Fools Us into Making 53 Thinking Errors (Paperback)
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Woody's Last Laugh - How the Extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker Fools Us into Making 53 Thinking Errors (Paperback)
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Woody's Last Laugh explores a simmering controversy amid
scientists, conservationists, birders and the media: the supposed
"extinction" of American ivory-billed woodpecker. Among the first
to identify rampant mental errors inside conservation and
environmental professions, the book identifies 53 distinct kinds of
cognitive blunders, psychological biases, and logical fallacies on
both sides of the woodpecker controversy. Few species have ever
provoked such social rancor. Why are rumors of its persistence so
prevalent, unlike other near or recently extinct animals? Why are
we so bad mannered with each other about a mere bird? How is it
that we cannot agree even on whether a mere bird is alive or dead?
Woody's Last Laugh uncovers why such mysteries so mess with our
heads. By exploring uncharted borders between conservation and
mental perception, new ways of evaluating truth and accuracy are
opened to everyone. Author Dr. J. Christopher Haney is a biologist,
conservation scientist and lifelong birder. For 12 years he was
Chief Scientist at Defenders of Wildlife. In 2010, following the
Deepwater Horizon oil blowout, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
invited him to lead the largest pelagic study of marine birds ever
conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2013 he has been president
of Terra Mar Applied Sciences, an independent public-interest
conservation research firm which he founded. If there is one lesson
Dr. Haney hopes his book delivers, it is to not overvalue our
thinking skills. Human reason is fallible, even among scientists
and technical experts. To improve our essential relationship with
nature, conservation practices will need to devote as much
attention to the unbridled thoughts as the unswerving sentiments.
Dead or alive, however, the ivory-bill got the last laugh on us
all.
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