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From 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 collabora

Who reads The Bird Way : A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think?

Author

Jennifer Ackerman; Scribe

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735223028

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Nature, Birds

Rating

4.6 / 5 (1,468 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14