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Bird Sense - What It's Like to Be a Bird (Paperback)
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Bird Sense - What It's Like to Be a Bird (Paperback)
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List price R456
Loot Price R412
Discovery Miles 4 120
You Save R44 (10%)
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What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred
kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the
humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And
what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and
how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like
these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable
them to interpret their environment and to interact with each
other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of
shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their
senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of
taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's
magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to
detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it? Bird
Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently
underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of
bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the
way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these
frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies
ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird
behaviour. There has never been a popular book about the senses of
birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the
world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses.
A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a
wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their
behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.
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