Bird Sense (ePub)
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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.
Tim received the Elliot Coues Medal, for outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research in 2010; the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour medal for outstanding contributions to the study of animal behaviour in 2012; The Godman-Salvin Medal, for 'distinguished ornithological work' by the British Ornithologists' Union in 2016, the Founders' Medal of the Society for the Study of the History of Natural History for contributions to the history and bibliography of natural history in 2016. In 2014 Tim won the Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal for contributions to the understanding and appreciation of Zoology. He won the Eisenmann Medal of the Linnaean Society of New York, for excellence in ornithology and encouragement of the amateur in 2015; the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, for increasing public understanding of evolutionary biology (from the Society of Evolution) in 2017; and that same year the Zoological Society of London's Clarivate Analytics Award, for Communicating Zoology to a general audience for his book The Most Perfect Thing. Tim was elected as an FRS in 2004.
Tim has written or edited 15 books, including four popular science titles published by Bloomsbury - The Wisdom of Birds (2008), Bird Sense (2012); The Most Perfect Thing (2017) and The Wonderful Mr Willughby (Bloomsbury 2018).
He is one of the four founders of New Networks for Nature-an annual festival that brings together scientists, writers, poets, artists and musicians to celebrate our relationship with the natural world.
- Autor: Tim Birkhead
- 2012, 1. Auflage, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Bill Swainson
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 1408828715
- ISBN-13: 9781408828717
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2012
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- Grösse: 0.91 MB
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