{"product_id":"the-bird-way-a-new-look-at-how-birds-talk-work-play-parent-and-think","title":"The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk  Work  Play  Parent  and Think","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 speciesoursbut 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 calland 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 Alaskas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984007753781,"sku":"ByrdShop_0735223017","price":26.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780735223011.jpg?v=1770818598","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bird-way-a-new-look-at-how-birds-talk-work-play-parent-and-think","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}