In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about. Consider, as Ackerman does, the Clark's nutcracker, a bird that can hide as many as 30,000 seeds over dozens of square miles and remember where it put them several months later; the mockingbirds and thrashers, species that can store 200 to 2,000 different songs in a brain a thousand times smaller than ours; the well-known pigeon, which knows where it's going, even thousands of miles from familiar territory; and the New Caledonian crow, an impressive bird that makes its own tools. This elegant scientific investigation and travelogue weaves personal anecdotes with fascinating science.
© 2016 Isis Publishing Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781445060903
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Ljudbok: 1 november 2016
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In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about. Consider, as Ackerman does, the Clark's nutcracker, a bird that can hide as many as 30,000 seeds over dozens of square miles and remember where it put them several months later; the mockingbirds and thrashers, species that can store 200 to 2,000 different songs in a brain a thousand times smaller than ours; the well-known pigeon, which knows where it's going, even thousands of miles from familiar territory; and the New Caledonian crow, an impressive bird that makes its own tools. This elegant scientific investigation and travelogue weaves personal anecdotes with fascinating science.
© 2016 Isis Publishing Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781445060903
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Ljudbok: 1 november 2016
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Mona-Lisa
17 juni 2021
Många namn på arter, men det kan man bortse ifrån om man inte kan dem…. (talar om mig själv 😉)Det är inte det som är det viktiga. Fåglarnas fantastiska förmågor är verkligen såå häpnadsväckande. Mycket bra inläst också. Rekommenderas!
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