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The Nesting Season. Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy

Door Bernd Heinrich

Categorie
Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer
#225074
Titel
The Nesting Season. Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
Auteur
Heinrich, Bernd
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
0674048776
ISBN13
9780674048775
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

Why are the eggs of the marsh wren deep brown, the winter wren's nearly white, and the gray catbird's a brilliant blue? And what in the DNA of a penduline tit makes the male weave a domed nest of fibers and the female line it with feathers, while the bird-of-paradise male builds no nest at all, and his bower-bird counterpart constructs an elaborate dwelling? These are typical questions that Bernd Heinrich pursues in the engaging style we've come to expect from him - supplemented here with his own stunning photographs and original watercolors. One of the world's great naturalists and nature writers, Heinrich shows us how the sensual beauty of birds can open our eyes to a hidden evolutionary process. Nesting, as Heinrich explores it here, encompasses what fascinates us most about birds - f
... (Lees verder)rom their delightful songs and spectacular displays to their varied eggs and colorful plumage; from their sex roles and mating rituals to nest parasitism, infanticide, and predation. What moves birds to mate and parent their young in so many different ways is what interests Heinrich - and his insights into the nesting behavior of birds has more than a little to say about our own.
Pagina's
337
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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