Bird Sense

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Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers away How do birds navigate by using an innate magnetic compass Tracing the history of how our knowledge about birds has grown, particularly through advances in technology over the past fifty years, Bird Sense tells captivating stories about how birds interact with one another and their environment More advanced testing methods have debunked previously held beliefs, such as female starlings selecting mates based on how symmetrical the male s plumage markings are Whereas females can discern the difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical markings, they are not very good at detecting small differences among symmetrically marked males Never before has there been a popular book about how intricately bird behavior is shaped by birds senses A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of fieldwork experiences, insights, and a unique understanding of birds, all firmly grounded in science No one who reads Bird Sense can fail to be dazzled by it. Download Bird Sense – kino-fada.fr 3.49This was a great book that really goes into the science of birds We touch on various sense such as touch, smell, taste, emotion, magnetic sense, and In each section, Birkhead goes through the history of the sense in relation to birds, experiments conducted on the birds to prove disprove this theory, and the science ...This was one of the most interesting biology books I have ever read Tackling the unique senses of avian creatures in a chapter by chapter way, starting with vision, then progressing through smell, taste, magnetic navigation, emotion, and , this book is packed to the brim with fascinating facts For example, dogs are widely reputed to see in black and ...Too much anatomy for me Not enough anecdotes, though there are some and they are fascinating The title itself is accurate, but the subtitle is misleading and led me to feelfrustration than I would have if not led on to expectMostly the book is a plea forresearch there are still farquestions than answers on the topic of birds senses Rigorous science which I kno...BIRD SENSE What It s Like to be a Bird 2012 Tim Birkhead .The author of this book is a Professor of Animal Behavior at the University of Sheffield, and has been studying birds for 40 years In this work, he examines the various senses of birds to see how similar and or different from those of humans One of the difficulties in this field is the tendency to anthropomorphize such studies, but the author avoids this as much as possible, and takes the various birds as they are at lea BIRD SENSE What It s Like to be a Bird 2012 Tim Birkhead .The author of this book is a Pr...Unfortunately, this book is written from the scientists point of view rather than that of the bird It is a narrative of the experiments and observations over the last 400 years that have given us some clues about the workings of bird se...Can we ever know what it is like to be a bird As poetic as the question may appear to be, it s fascinating how the question has fascinated a bunch of cientists and artists ranging from neurosurgeons, ecologists, physiologists to bird illustrators and medieval travellers The fascination with bird flight is possibly as old as language itself Birds are among the early cave paintings, be it in the subterrane...This is book about sensation by someone who seems to have no feelings What s evenodd is that this is a book about what it s like to be a bird by someone who seems to have zero interest in that question In the late 1960s, I dissected my way through much of the animal kingdom I loved it the dogfish was a delightful dissection pp 134 135.In addition to demonstrating Birkhead s callousness, that quote gives you a tip on where Birkhead s true interests lie In determining the str This is book about sensation by someone who seems to have no feelings What s evenodd is that this is a book about what it s like to be a bird by someone who seems to have zero interest in that question In the late 1960s, I dissected my way through much of the animal kingdom I loved it the dogfish was a delightful dissection pp 134 135.In addition to demonstrating Birkhead s callousness, that quote gives you a tip on where Birkhead s true interests lie In determining the structures and mechanics of vision, taste, touch, hearing and other sensations in birds How that adds up what it might feel like to be a bird that question seems to fall so far outside of the ambit of Birkhead s curiosity that he has never once troubled himself to even try to imagine it.And so he is able, without flinching, to describe the most horrific experiments on birds and on other animals, su...Seeing, hearing, touch, taste, smell, magnetic sense and emotions are the chapters under which Prof Tim Birkhead FRS discusses what it s like to be a bird.It s a good read and I learned a lot about how we people sense the world around us as well as how birds sense it differently.How do birds sense distant rain How do oilbirds and owls navigate in the dark Which eye will let robins sense the Earth s magnetic field How do dunnocks feel when they copulate for a tenth of a second but hundreds of Seeing, hearing, touch, tas...I hate giving this book a poor review I really wanted to like it I just upped it to 3 really was too harsh It s a discussion of birds senses vision, hearing, touch, etc The chapter on vision is great birds see well into the ultra violet, and species are optimized for one of two different kinds of visual acuity Night birds, like owls, don t see high resolution, but can see in extremely low light Soaring birds, like hawks, have amazing resolution, but can t see well in low light at all I hate giving this book a poor revie...I have always admired birds but I never really wondered how they manage to survive or behave in this world I picked up this book out of curiosity at my local library, eager to learn at least something about bird sense in general, and I was not disappointed I did not know anything about birds except that I like them and this book is a great start, it s not too heavy fo...

Bird Sense
  • English
  • 25 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 265 pages
  • 0802779662
  • Tim Birkhead
  • Bird Sense