Bird sense : what it's like to be a bird / by Tim Birkhead
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Walker & Company , 2012.Description: 265p. ; 22cmISBN:- 9780802779663
- 598 BIR
- QL698 .B57 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 598 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018822 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book helps readers understand what it's like to be something else-in this case, a bird. Ornithologist Birkhead (animal behavior & history of science, Univ. of Sheffield, UK; The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology) writes about avian senses, with chapters on seeing, hearing, touch, taste, smell, magnetic sense, and emotions. He illustrates the history of scientific thought regarding birds' senses. Birkhead argues that it is difficult for humans to imagine themselves as birds because birds see a different ultraviolet spectrum, hear at higher frequencies, and somehow sense the earth's magnetic field. Moving among field locations (e.g., New Zealand, Florida, Atlantic islands), he illustrates the abilities of birds and their survival techniques, and, in the postscript, describes how all their senses function together.topics. Birders, naturalists, animal scientists, and students will be interested.
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