The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think / Jennifer Ackerman.
The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think / Jennifer Ackerman.
The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think / Jennifer Ackerman.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2786
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English
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355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
When you've seen one bird -- Dawn chorus -- Cause for alarm -- Superb parroting -- The scent of sustenance -- Hot tools -- Tracing the ant's path -- Birds of play -- Clowns of the mountains -- Sex -- Wild wooing -- Brain teasers -- Free-range parenting -- The world's best birdwatchers -- A childcare...
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New York : Penguin Press, 2020.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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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 anom...
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The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think / Jennifer Ackerman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/2786
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74VKadP76MZl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadP76MZl
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9780735223011 hardcover
0735223017 hardcover
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598.15
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991024317392902626
