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Title: The Talent of Birds
Author: [America] Jennifer Ackerman
Translator: Shen Hanzhong
Douban score: 8.5
Publishing House: Yilin Publishing House
Publication year: 2019/4/30
Page count: 385
Content introduction:
We often forget where the keys are, but crows can remember 5000 places to store food.
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▼ Introduction ▼
Humans and birds go to different branches on the road of evolution, and we are used to measuring intelligence by our own scale, thus seriously underestimating the potential of other species. The talent of birds subverts human cognition of birds with a journey to find the strongest bird brain. This book shows the intellectual miracle of birds from the aspects of tool making, communication, singing, aesthetics, sense of time and space, environmental adaptability, etc., and makes us re-recognize these familiar and unfamiliar elves around us. Jennifer Ackerman recorded her bird surveys around the world in an elegant style and introduced the latest scientific research results of ornithology. This book keeps a good balance between interest and knowledge.
The Chinese version was recommended by ornithologist Liu Yang.
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▼ won the prize ▼
Books recommended by the 15th National Library "Golden Book Award"
The 10th Wu Dayou Popular Science Works Award and Translation Works Award.
20 16 Top Ten Non-fiction Books of The Wall Street Journal
Science Friday 20 16 Best Science Books
Observer 20 16 good book.
Sunday Times 20 16 Nature Books
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▼ Media recommendation ▼
The talent of birds is pleasing to the eye, subverting our past views and inspiring. This book is full of awe of life between the lines, so let us care for everything in the world with a moral spirit.
Writer and environmentalist Rick Bass
This book provides a poetic testimony to the intellectual miracle of birds.
-Scientific American
About the author:
Jennifer Ackerman (Jennifer Ackerman)
American popular science writer, engaged in science, nature and human biology for 30 years, whose works are known as "art based on solid science". He is the author of popular science books such as Sex, Sleep, Diet, Dreams: A Day in Your Body, A Turning Point in the House of Destiny: Genetic and Natural History, and Coastal Notes. She also wrote articles for Scientific American, National Geographic and The New York Times, and won many nature writing awards.