Download or read book Count with Bowerbird Bill written by Melanie Raymond and published by Museum Victoria. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowerbird Bill is a Satin Bowerbird who loves to build. He also loves to find treasures for his bower. Count with Bill and share his journey as he looks for treasure.
Download or read book Report on Certain Hydroid Alcyonarian and Madreporarian Corals written by Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Birds Collected During the Voyage of H M S Challenger in the Years 1873 1876 written by Philip Lutley Sclater and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bird Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes M A written by William Alexander Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes written by Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report on Certain Hydroid Alcyonarian and Madreporarian Corals Procured During the Voyage of H M S Challenger in the Years 1873 1876 written by Henry Nottidge Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bird Way written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” 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 are 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; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; 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, Jennifer 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 is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
Download or read book The Genius of Birds written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review “A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures. Ackerman is also the author of Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast.
Download or read book Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds written by Phil Gregory and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the United Kingdom by Helm/Bloomsbury in 2019.
Download or read book Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary written by Arthur Gardiner Butler and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bird Sense written by Tim Birkhead and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Victorian Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Phar Lap the Wonder Horse written by Jackie Kerin and published by Museum Victoria. This book was released on 2008 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Phar Lap, the great Australian racehorse, written in ballad form for children."--Provided by publisher.
