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Paperback / softback. New. Demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. Gisela Kaplan describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Kaplan brings together evidence of many such cognitive abilities, suggesting plausible reasons for their appearance in Australian birds.
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Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds Paperback - 2015
by Gisela Kaplan
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- Title Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds
- Author Gisela Kaplan
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher CSIRO Publishing
- Date 2015
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781486300181 / 1486300189
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 10.7 x 5.51 x 0.63 in (27.18 x 14.00 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Australian
- Library of Congress subjects Birds - Behavior - Australia, Cognition in animals - Australia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014471763
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.072
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Melbourne, Vic : CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Reprinted with Corrections. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Quarto. Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges all neat and clean Card corners are slightly bumped In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds cooperate and defend each other, and exceptional ones go fishing by throwing breadcrumbs in the water, extract poisonous parts from prey and use tools to crack open eggshells and mussels. The author brings together evidence of many such cognitive abilities, suggesting plausible reasons for their appearance in Australian birds.Bird Minds is the first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of…
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Csiro, 2015. Paperback. New. 268 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches.
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