Jennifer Ackerman

The Genius of Birds

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'What kind of intelligence allows a bird to anticipate the arrival of a distant storm? Or find its way to a place it has never been before, though it may be thousands of miles away? Or precisely imitate the complex songs of hundreds of other species? Or hide tens of thousands of seeds over hundreds of square miles and remember where it put them six months later?Maybe genius is a better word.'Incredibly informative and beautifully written, Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds richly celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures.'Gloriously provocative and fascinating. The Genius of Birds is at once a book of… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4721-1436-5
EAN: 9781472114365
Produktnummer: 20394286
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.6 cm x D3.0 cm 328 g
Gewicht: 328

Über den Autor

JENNIFER ACKERMAN has been writing about science, nature, and human biology for almost three decades. A contributor to Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.