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Author : Carel ten Cate,Susan D. Healy,Sue Healy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107092389
An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species.
Author : Debra S. Herrmann
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781498748438
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 a
Author : Nathan Emery
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400882861
Why birds are smarter than we think Birds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable intelligence is sometimes called a "birdbrain." Yet in the past two decades, the study of avian intelligence has witnessed dramatic advances. From a time when birds were seen as simple instinct machines responding only to stimuli in their external worlds, we now know that some birds have complex internal worlds as well. This beautifully illustrated book provides an engaging exploration of the avian mind, revealing how science is exploding one of the most widespread myths about our feathered friends—and changing the way we think about intelligence in other animals as well. Bird Brain looks at the structures and functions of the avian brain, and describes the extraordinary behaviors that different types of avian intelligence give rise to. It offers insights into crows, jays, magpies, and other corvids—the “masterminds” of the avian world—as well as parrots and some less-studied species from around the world. This lively and accessible book shows how birds have sophisticated brains with abilities previously thought to be uniquely human, such as mental time travel, self-recognition, empathy, problem solving, imagination, and insight. Written by a leading expert and featuring a foreword by Frans de Waal, renowned for his work on animal intelligence, Bird Brain shines critical new light on the mental lives of birds.
Author : Carel Ten Cate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108300553
An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species
Author : Nathan Emery,Frans B. M. Waal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691165172
"This book was conceived, designed and produced by Ivy Press"--Title page verso.
Author : Jaime Samour
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780723439554
Combining the in-depth coverage of a text with the practicality of a clinical manual and the visual detail of an atlas, Avian Medicine, 3rd Edition is the complete, all-in-one guide to every aspect of avian care. Written by some of the world's leading authorities in avian medicine, this highly illustrated reference covers a wide variety of avian species — including psittacines, raptors, bustards, parrots, finches, and more. Comprehensive coverage includes issues ranging from the basic aspects of patient management to the most sophisticated diagnostic techniques. Plus, with more illustrations, a wealth of practical advice, and the latest information on cutting-edge treatments and procedures incorporated into this new edition, today’s general clinician will be fully equipped to effectively and confidently care for all birds. Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of clinical management written by leading experts in the field provides readers with a depth and breadth of knowledge on avian medicine and care. Coverage of a wide variety of species — including raptors, bustards, and many others — enables practitioners to treat a greater assortment of patients with more confidence and skill. Bulleted text and tables help present information in an accessible way. More than 900 color images give readers a better picture of disease and how it will be encountered in practice. Appendices bring together wide-ranging data on hematology and blood chemistry reference values, commonly used pharmaceutics and other information relevant to avian practitioners. NEW! New chapter sections, revised references, and updated suggested readings ensure that readers have the most up-to-date information. NEW! New chapter contributors ensure the information in the text reflects the most current techniques and advances. NEW! Expanded content on parrots, finches and fruit-eating birds has been added to the text to make content more relevant to the needs of today’s practitioners. NEW! Thoroughly updated content includes the latest surgical techniques and procedures to keep practitioners on top of the most cutting-edge information in the field. NEW! Additional content and images on MRI have been incorporated throughout the text to complete the coverage of other advanced imaging techniques such as CT scans.
Author : Paul M. W. Hackett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030121921
This book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal behaviour research and the design of research procedures through employing mapping sentences. Using the facet theoretical framework, this book takes a holistic view of bird behaviour. Components of bird behavior are identified and then reassembled to facilitate an understanding of the behaviour in the context of its natural occurrence. This provides new insight on both the parts of the behaviour and how these interact as a whole. The multi-faceted approach to designing, evaluating and understanding bird behavior presented offers a template that is adaptable for investigating a wide variety of avian species and different forms of behaviour. Behavioural biologists, animal and comparative psychologists, other natural and behavioural scientists, as well as students of these disciplines will find this book to be an interesting and enlightening read.
Author : Nereida Bueno-Guerra,Federica Amici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108420327
Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.
Author : Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199930661
In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.
Author : Gisela Kaplan
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781486300198
In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds cooperate and defend each other, and exceptional ones go fishing by throwing breadcrumbs in the water, extract poisonous parts from prey and use tools to crack open eggshells and mussels. The author brings together evidence of many such cognitive abilities, suggesting plausible reasons for their appearance in Australian birds. Bird Minds is the first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land birds. In this fascinating volume, the author also presents recent changes in our understanding of the avian brain and links these to life histories and longevity. Following on from Gisela’s well-received books on the Australian Magpie and the Tawny Frogmouth, as well as two earlier titles on birds, Bird Minds contends that the unique and often difficult conditions of Australia's environment have been crucial for the evolution of unusual complexities in avian cognition and behaviour.
Author : Boria Sax
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789144314
An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds. Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, decorative motifs, and, most importantly, embodiments of our aspirations. Boria Sax narrates the history of our relationships with a host of bird species, including crows, owls, parrots, falcons, eagles, nightingales, hummingbirds, and many more. Along the way, Sax describes how birds’ nesting has symbolized human romance, how their flight has inspired inventors throughout history, and he concludes by showing that the interconnections between birds and humans are so manifold that a world without birds would effectively mean an end to human culture itself. Beautifully illustrated, Avian Illuminations is a superb overview of humanity’s long and rich association with our avian companions.
Author : Kirsten Harper Sanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X75986
Author : Blandine Françoise Doligez,Laure Cauchard
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889765522
Author : Michael Colombo,Damian Scarf,Thomas Zentall
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889665976
Author : Nathan Emery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782403140
An absorbing study of how birds think, revealing how science is exploding the myth of our feathered friends being 'bird brained', and how recent discoveries may call for us to re-evaluate how we identify and classify intelligence in other animals. Bird Brain will start by looking at the structures and functions of the avian brain, and move on to examine different types of intelligence by profiling the extraordinary behaviours of a broad range of the species, studying the masterminds of the avian world, and examining what types of behaviour can be interpreted as 'intelligence' as we would recognize it. Bird Brain will not only look at the well-studied species such as New Caledonian crows and parrots, but also cast a broader eye over the behaviour of a wide range of species from around the world.