Ptačí způsoby – Ackerman Jennifer (2021)

A new perspective on how birds talk, work, play, raise their young, and think. The new book by the author of the bestseller "The Genius of Birds" offers crucial insights into the way of avian existence and the latest scientific research, significantly advancing our understanding of how birds live and think. * A celebration of the diversity of bird life and behavior. This book discusses surprising and sometimes disturbing behaviors that are part of daily life for birds, activities that significantly and sometimes mischievously overturn our usual notions of what is 'normal' for birds and what we thought they were capable of. Jennifer Ackerman, based on current scientific findings, overturns the traditional view of how birds live, how they communicate with each other, forage for food, mate, raise their young, and survive. She reveals their remarkable intelligence and strategies and abilities that we once attributed solely to humans: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, killing offspring, but also sophisticated interspecies communication, cooperation, synergy, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are so intricate that they push the boundaries of what it means to be 'bird-like' – that is, avian...