Bird minds : cognition and behaviour of Australian native birds /

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Author / Creator:	Kaplan, Gisela, author.
Imprint:	Clayton, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (280 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Birds -- Behavior -- Australia. Birds -- Psychology. Animal intelligence. Animal intelligence. Birds -- Behavior. Birds -- Psychology. Australia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12355533

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Other authors / contributors:	CSIRO (Australia)
ISBN:	9781486300198 1486300197 9781486300204 1486300200 1486300189 9781486300181
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 f.
Other form:	Original 9781486300181 1486300189
Publisher's no.:	EB00770865 Recorded Books

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