Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds

Author(s): Gisela Kaplan

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Bird Minds is the first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land birds. Following on from Kaplan's well-received books on the Australian Magpie and the Tawny Frogmouth, Bird Minds 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.

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Gisela Kaplan is a Professor at the University of New England, and an Honorary Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute. She is the author of over 250 research articles and 21 books and has conducted groundbreaking research into vocal learning, communication and cognition in birds and other vertebrates. She holds two PhDs and an honorary DSc for her contributions to life sciences. In addition to extensive research on birds in the wild, for the past two decades she has also raised and rehabilitated injured native birds.

General Fields

  • : 9781486300181
  • : CSIRO Publishing
  • : CSIRO Publishing
  • : 0.525
  • : August 2015
  • : 246mm X 170mm
  • : August 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Gisela Kaplan
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 598.0994
  • : 268
  • : Photographs, Illustrations