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Avian Cognition: Exploring the Intelligence, Behavior and Individuality of Birds

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Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared…

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Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared. This book investigates who birds are and why they do what they do. Daily, seasonal, and play activities, creativity, reasoning abilities, problem-solving skills, social interaction, life stages, and communication patterns are described, and a distinction is made between vocalizations that are learned and those that are inherited. The behavior and intelligence of both wild and pet birds is compared, and unlike other books, entire chapters are devoted to a single species. 529 p.

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • Debra Herrmann. Biological Computing Initiative, North Bethesda, MD (USA).
  • Publication date (reimpression original edition 2012 to digital version): 2016-12.

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26 April 2018

This is an engaging, well-written description of Herrmann’s observations and interpretation of the behavior of individual birds, both wild and companion…[and] offers insightful descriptions of behavior by an experienced, sensitive observer.

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