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The Bird Way - A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Paperback)
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The Bird Way - A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Paperback)
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds,
a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent
scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding
of birds -- how they live and how they think. "There is the mammal
way and there is the bird way." But the bird way is much more than
a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken
a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as
anomalies or mysteries -- What they are finding is upending the
traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they
communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing
the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities
we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation,
cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication
between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and
play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological
conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother
bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly
tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird
that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species-ours-but
parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and
birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their
creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to
keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special
call-and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness
and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations,
the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world,
from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote
woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria
and the islands of Alaska's Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows
there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in
plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds
vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when
you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
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