
Crows
Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World {10th anniversary edition}
Candace Savage(Author)
Greystone Books,Canada (Publisher)
Published on 21. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-77164-085-5 (ISBN)
Description
This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage's best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and photos, as well as a fascinating selection of first-person stories and poems about remarkable encounters with crows. In one story, a pack of crows brilliantly thwarts an attack by a Golden Eagle; in another, a mischievous crow rescues the author from grief. And in a third piece, after nursing a battered baby crow back to health until it flies off with other crows, Louise Erdrich hauntingly describes her altered awareness as she listens for the ?dark laugh" of crows while she works.
Based on two decades of audacious research by scientists around the world, the book also provides an unprecedented, evidence-based glimpse into corvids' intellectual, social, and emotional lives. But whether viewed through the lens of science, myth, or everyday experience, the result is always the same. These birds are so smart?and so mysterious?they take your breath away.
Based on two decades of audacious research by scientists around the world, the book also provides an unprecedented, evidence-based glimpse into corvids' intellectual, social, and emotional lives. But whether viewed through the lens of science, myth, or everyday experience, the result is always the same. These birds are so smart?and so mysterious?they take your breath away.
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Series
Edition
Tenth Anniversary Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Color and B&W illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
343 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77164-085-5 (9781771640855)
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E-Book
12/2020
Greystone Books
€18.18
Available for download
Person
Candace Savage is the author of more than two dozen books, including the best-selling Bird Brains, She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Content
PREFACE THE CROW CONNECTION
ONE THE BIRDS IN BLACK
TWO FAMILY DRAMAS
THREE THE TRICKSTER REVISITED
FOUR FELLOW FEELING
Notes
Further Reading
Picture Credits
Index