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Chargement... The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (2020)par Jennifer Ackerman
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think par Jennifer Ackerman (2020)
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |   Un libro hermoso, bien documentado y que nos hace voltear a ver al otro, el otro en este caso son aves. Entenderlas y entender un poquito que hay una manera de ser muy peculiar en cada ser vivo. (  ) uvejota | Jul 26, 2023 | )1  wolfe.myles | Feb 28, 2023 |  ) TonyDib | Jan 28, 2022 | The Bird Way is sort of a follow-up to The Genius of Birds, which I also highly recommend. Both bring birds to life in a way that highlights just how unique, how smart, and how under-appreciated they are as a species by the general population. The Bird Way focuses on some of the even more unique outliers of the species; the ones that defy expectations either by their intelligence, their capacity for play, their weird mating rituals, communications, or parenting styles (or the lack thereof). After reading this, one comes to terms with the idea that there is truly nothing new under the sun. There are birds that commit chicknapping, and birds that leave their eggs in everybody else’s nests.. There are birds that murder other birds, rape their females and commit acts of necrophilia. It’s all very sordid, but their are also birds that go out of their way to feed another species’ fledglings, warn other species about predators, and practice cooperative, communal parenting. Birds that sing so beautifully that symphonies have been written around their song, and birds that create literal walls of sound that chase out every competitor in their vicinity. Obviously, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s easy, accessible reading, but Ackerman has done her research and includes a comprehensive Further Reading at the back of the book, broken down by chapters, that serves as a list of citations. I’ll admit, part of why I enjoyed the book as much as I did was that while her focus was international, a lot of the birds discussed were Australian and ones I’ve been privileged enough to see myself. It’s probably this first hand experience that pushed the book solidly into 5 star territory for me; perhaps without it I might have rated it 4.5 stars. Either way, it’s a book I’d happily recommend to anyone interested in not just birds, but it how we are discovering just how wrong we’ve been about what makes humanity “special”. And if the section about Keas doesn’t make you smile, and perhaps chuckle out loud, you must be having a really bad day. ( )2 murderbydeath | Jan 18, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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""There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. 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're 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. Young birds that devote themselves to feeding their siblings and others so competitive they'll stab their nestmates to death. 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, 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's what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)598.15Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Specific topics [Reptiles now at 597.9] Habits and behavior [Ichthyosauria now at 567.93]Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (4.19)
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Ackerman’s books are always a lovely mix of science and anecdote, with exactly the right combination to keep a layman glued to the page and wanting to learn more.
The feats performed by birds in this book are amazing. The chapters on parenting were especially interesting, ranging from the total non-involvement of the mound building birds to the communal parenting of some species in collective nests.
The problem solving and memory skills of birds I had encountered in other books were expanded upon here with amusing stories and research results.
A winner all around (