Leah: Great books with interesting facts.
United States on Aug 21, 2023
Anon: The anecdotes and information made this a perfect birthday present
Canada on Jun 26, 2023
Paula: full of nice, full page photographs, but I expected a little more informative reading
United States on Apr 14, 2023
MariaReina18: Entertaining, informative, beautiful photography and a very decent price. I took this book out of the library several times and finally just bought it for keeps.
United States on Mar 11, 2023
Beate Beatrise Ozolina: My granddaughter very happy about it
United Kingdom on Mar 05, 2023
Teresa Peters: Fantastic book! A lot of useful information about Corvids!
Canada on Sep 13, 2022
Wendy Bidwell: purchased for my nephew but looks to be a very interesting informative book with lots of colour photos that I think he will love and find useful for his studies
United Kingdom on Jun 26, 2022
markr: This is a really lovely book, full of beautiful colour photographs of Corvids: Crows, Ravens, Magpies, Jays, and Nutcrackers. The text itself is fascinating looking at the remarkable intelligence of these birds which demonstrate the ability to welcome and greet individual people, to devise strategies for finding, caching and retrieving food, creating and using tools, and much more.
Corvids are intelligent birds - by ratio of brain size to body size they are similar to humans, but with memory for location that surpasses our own. The book gives numerous interesting examples of what Corvids have been seen to be able to do and includes various corvid related quotations and folk tales - all of which are fascinating.
I love watching the magpies, crows and ravens in our garden, and this rather wonderful book has taught me a lot more about them.
The book itself is beautifully produced with glossy paper and is enjoyable to leaf through as well as to read from cover to cover.
United Kingdom on Dec 14, 2021
Vilnis Neilands: This is a very nice large format glossy coffee table type book with perhaps half of it’s pages displaying impressive and unique photographs of various members of the Corvid family of birds going about their daily business of life. This is more a work of art and joy than a scholarly research tome.
The excellent photographs are accompanied by equally compelling text of the authors studies and views particularly as relates to the perplexing issue of whether these birds have intelligence and the ability to think. For the layperson and scientist alike the observations seem compelling. But the conundrum is that they have not been scientifically verified. Accepting the observations intuitively would roil present narratives of thought and consciousness so profoundly that it is a step that is being approached very slowly, deliberatively, and verifiably. As it should.
But that does not mean that those outside the higher reaches of academia cannot point out what seems to be the obvious and drive the effort towards understanding and clarity, as does this author. And she does so not only in words but glorious photographs so compellingly, that for most it becomes very obvious....
United States on Sep 19, 2015
Uncovering the Cognitive Abilities of Corvids: A Study of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays | Exploring the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence: The Remarkable Story of Alex and Me | Unlocking the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence: The Story of Alex and Me | |
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Total Reviews | 19 reviews | 26 reviews | 26 reviews |
Language | English | English | English |
Item Weight | 2.1 pounds | 12 ounces | 7.7 ounces |
Customer Reviews | 4.8/5 stars of 461 ratings | 4.5/5 stars of 3,259 ratings | 4.5/5 stars of 3,259 ratings |
ISBN-10 | 0871563797 | 0061672475 | 9780061673986 |
Publisher | Sierra Club Books; 1st US - 1st Printing edition | Harper; 1st edition | Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition |
Best Sellers Rank | #569 in Bird Watching | #153 in Animal Behavior & Communication#245 in Bird Care#886 in Bird Field Guides | #16 in Bird Care#23 in Ornithology #116 in Bird Field Guides |
Bird Watching (Books) | Bird Watching | ||
ISBN-13 | 978-0871563798 | 978-0061672477 | 978-0061673986 |
Hardcover | 134 pages | 240 pages | |
Dimensions | 10.25 x 0.75 x 10.5 inches | 5 x 0.86 x 8 inches | 0.8 x 5.2 x 7.9 inches |
tstarr: Great book, fast delivery!
United States on Sep 20, 2023