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The Thing with Feathers

✍ Scribed by Strycker, Noah

Book ID
108646253
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
975 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780698152731

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✦ Synopsis

An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising worldand deep connection with humanity.

Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to understand more about the secrets of bird life, they are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself.

The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, the lifelong loves of albatross, and other mysteriesrevealing why birds do what they do, and offering a glimpse into our own nature.

Noah Strycker is a birder and naturalist who has traveled the world in pursuit of his flighty subjects. Drawing deep from personal...

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