Jennifer Ackerman

Un libro que explora la sorprendente individualidad que caracteriza a los pájaros, porque cada ave es tan distinta como lo somos los humanos.Si en El ingenio de los pájaros Ackerman reveló la inteligencia y la habilidad social de las aves, en este nuevo libro nos demuestra que los pajaros no tienen una sola manera de ser, sino que existe una asombrosa variedad de conductas incluso dentro de una misma especie. Centrandose en la actividad diaria de las aves, la autora nos muestra el rico repertorio de comportamientos inusuales y extremos, que proporciona un contraste con lo que los pajaros hacen habitualmente y, por tanto, derriba los intentos de explicar la diversidad ornitologica bajo un solo paraguas.

Bestseller del New York Times.Una historia extraordinaria que nos enseña a apreciar los talentos excepcionales de estas aves.Jennifer Ackerman explora en este libro la genialidad de los pájaros, unos animales capaces de desplegar aptitudes mentales y destrezas comparables a las de los primates e incluso a las de los seres humanos. Mientras viaja alrededor del mundo, hasta los confines de la investigacion mas puntera, Ackerman no solo narra la historia de la recien descubierta inteligencia de estas aves, sino que, ademas, profundiza en los ultimos hallazgos acerca del cerebro aviar, hallazgos que estan cambiando nuestra concepcion de lo que significa ser inteligente.Ahora bien, mas alla de mostrar como los pajaros emplean su inteligencia unica en cuestiones tecnicas, la autora destaca la impresionante habilidad social de estos animales. Engañan y manipulan, escuchan a hurtadillas, hacen regalos, se besan para consolarse, chantajean a sus parejas, se alertan mutuamente del peligro e incluso convocan testigos para presenciar la muerte de otra ave.

Libro destacado del New York Times de 2023. Nombrado mejor libro de 2023 por Publishers Weekly. Una maravillosa síntesis de etología, asombro y pasión por los búhos, las aves rapaces más enigmáticas del mundo.¿Por que los buhos ejercen tanta influencia en la imaginacion humana? Tienen fama por su sabiduria, ¿pero son inteligentes? ¿Actuan solo por instinto o son curiosos e ingeniosos? ¿Tienen sentimientos y emociones? ¿Por que sus ojos miran de la misma manera que los nuestros?Ya sea que aparezcan como antiguos simbolos atenienses de sabiduria, presagios fantasmales de la muerte o los tiernos compañeros de Winnie the Pooh y Harry Potter, estas aves continuan fascinando y perturbado en igual medida. A traves de una nueva investigacion del comportamiento, Jennifer Ackerman ofrece una vision intima de la vida de estas criaturas, cuya anatomia es todo un prodigio de la naturaleza.Desde las peculiaridades evolutivas detras de su penetrante mirada y cabezas giratorias, hasta sus relaciones romanticas y estilos de crianza, La sabiduria de los buhos da vida a la increible historia natural de los buhos. Entrelazando habilmente ciencia y arte, Ackerman viaja al mundo de este animal tan sugestivo y se pregunta por que ha fascinado tanto a la humanidad desde el comienzo de los tiempos.

Libro destacado del New York Times de 2023 Nombrado mejor libro de 2023 por Publishers Weekly Una maravillosa síntesis de etología, asombro y pasión por estas silenciosas y misteriosas rapaces nocturnas. ¿Por que ejercen tanta influencia en la imaginacion humana? Tienen fama por su sabiduria, ¿pero son inteligentes? ¿Actuan solo por instinto o son curiosos e ingeniosos? ¿Tienen sentimientos y emociones? ¿Por que sus ojos miran de la misma manera que los nuestros? Ya sea que aparezcan como antiguos simbolos atenienses de sabiduria, presagios fantasmales de la muerte o los tiernos compañeros de Winnie the Pooh y Harry Potter, estas aves continuan fascinando y perturbado en igual medida. A traves de una nueva investigacion del comportamiento, Jennifer Ackerman ofrece una vision intima de la vida de estas criaturas, cuya anatomia es todo un prodigio de la naturaleza. Desde las peculiaridades evolutivas detras de su penetrante mirada y cabezas giratorias, hasta sus relaciones romanticas y estilos de crianza, La sabiduria de los buhos da vida a la increible historia natural de los buhos. Entrelazando habilmente ciencia y arte, Ackerman viaja al mundo de este animal tan sugestivo y se pregunta porque ha fascinado tanto a la humanidad desde el comienzo de los tiempos.

Los pájaros son unos animales con una inteligencia fascinante. Nuevos y revolucionarios estudios de investigación demuestran que algunas especies despliegan asombrosas formas de inteligencia, comparables a las de los primates e incluso a las de los seres humanos. Mientras viaja alrededor del mundo, Ackerman no solo narra la historia de la recien descubierta inteligencia de los pajaros, sino que, ademas, profundiza en los ultimos hallazgos acerca del cerebro aviar, hallazgos que estan cambiando nuestra concepcion de lo que significa ser inteligente. Destaca la impresionante habilidad social de estos animales. Engañan y manipulan, escuchan a hurtadillas, hacen regalos, se besan para consolarse, chantajean a sus parejas, se alertan mutuamente del peligro, convocan a testigos para presenciar la muerte de otra ave e incluso hacen duelo. Esta elegante investigacion y cuaderno de bitacora entreteje anecdotas personales con datos cientificos sorprendentes.

"Meravellós, una celebració. Malgrat el menyspreu tradicional patit pels "cervells dels ocells", [Ackerman] ens mostra que són màquines impressionant i úniques…"—New York Times Book Review Best-selle

A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR Its flight and egg and feathers and song. Its the demure plumage of a mountain thornbill and the extravagant tail feathers of an Indian paradise flycatcher, the solo song of a superb lyrebird and the perfectly timed duets of canebrake wrens, an ospreys hurtling dive toward the sea, and a long-legged herons still, patient eyeing of the dark water.There is no single bird way of being.Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, Jennifer Ackerman playfully explores our dramatically shifting understanding of these magnificent animals.Jennifer Ackerman knows what shes talking about...Her knack for catching the personalities of different species in gorgeous, playful prose further collapses comfortable barriers between the human and the birdlikeDaily TelegraphThe real joy of [this] book is its close attention to some of the specialists of the region... Ackerman is alive to the humour at play in field research Mark Cocker, Spectator

And if anyone knows anything about anything its Owl who knows something about something. Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. MilneFrom prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso, owls have captivated and inspired us for millennia. Whether they appear as ancient Athenian symbols of wisdom, ghostly harbingers of death, or the cuddly sidekicks of Harry Potter and Winnie the Pooh, these birds have continued to fascinate and disturb us in equal measure.Through revelatory new behavioural research, Jennifer Ackerman provides an intimate glimpse into these magnificent creatures lives. From the evolutionary quirks behind their silent flight and rotating heads, to their romantic relationships and parenting styles, What an Owl Knows brings the rich natural history of owls to life. Deftly weaving together science and art, Ackerman journeys into the owls moonlit world and asks: what is it about these birds that so enthrals us?****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Fascinating we often hear a barn owl hooting in a stand of pine trees behind the house. Its an eerie, mysterious sound that never fails to enchant. And it is this enchantment that is at the core of this charming, deeply researched book.GUARDIANOnce again, Jennifer Ackerman has written a fascinating, fact-filled and wonderfully readable work of popular science this time on one of the most mysterious and charismatic of all bird families: the owls. STEPHEN MOSSAckermans love for these birds is totally infectious Long may they continue to fly through the darkness. DAILY MAIL

Depois do sucesso de A inteligência das aves, publicado pela Fósforo em 2022, a escritora especialista em ciências e natureza e best-seller do New York Times Jennifer Ackerman propõe ao leitor um voo

From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shoreFor three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the oceans edge: the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. Against this landscapes rhythms, Ackerman revisits her own history--her mothers death, her fathers illness and her hopes to have children of her own.This portrait of life at the oceans edge will be relished by anyone who has walked a beach at sunset, or watched a hawk hover over a winter marsh, and felt part of the natural world. With a quiet passion and friendly, generous intelligence, it explores the way that landscape shapes our thoughts and perceptions and shows that home ground is often where we feel the deepest response to the planet.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think.There is the mammal way and there is the bird way. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one speciesoursbut parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special calland may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaskas Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.

Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of bird brains, [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . . New York Times Book Review A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence. Scientific AmericanAn award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowessBirds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures.Ackerman is also the author of Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast.

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight.In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research - the distant laboratories of Barbados and New Caledonia, the great tit communities of the United Kingdom and the bowerbird habitats of Australia, the ravaged mid-Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy and the warming mountains of central Virginia and the western states - Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are revolutionizing our view of what it means to be intelligent.Consider, as Ackerman does, the Clarks nutcracker, a bird that can hide as many as 30,000 seeds over dozens of square miles and remember where it put them several months later; the mockingbirds and thrashers, species that can store 200 to 2,000 different songs in a brain a thousand times smaller than ours; the well-known pigeon, which knows where its going, even thousands of miles from familiar territory; and the New Caledonian crow, an impressive bird that makes its own tools.But beyond highlighting how birds use their unique genius in technical ways, Ackerman points out the impressive social smarts of birds. They deceive and manipulate. They eavesdrop. They display a strong sense of fairness. They give gifts. They play keep-away and tug-of-war. They tease. They share. They cultivate social networks. They vie for status. They kiss to console one another. They teach their young. They blackmail their parents. They alert one another to danger. They summon witnesses to the death of a peer. They may even grieve.This elegant scientific investigation and travelogue weaves personal anecdotes with fascinating science. Ackerman delivers an extraordinary story that will both give readers a new appreciation for the exceptional talents of birds and let them discover what birds can reveal about our changing world.

"MERAVELLÓS, UNA CELEBRACIÓ. MALGRAT EL MENYSPREU TRADICIONAL PATIT PELS "CERVELLS DELS OCELLS", [ACKERMAN] ENS MOSTRA QUE SÓN MÀQUINES IMPRESSIONANT I ÚNIQUES..."-_NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW_ á BES

EN AQUEST LLIBRE ES PLASMEN ELS DARRERS CONEIXEMENTS SOBRE COM VIUEN ELS OCELLS, COM ES COMUNIQUEN, BROSTEGEN, CORTEGEN, REPRODUEIXEN, SOBREVIUEN, FET QUE HA CAPGIRAT LES VISIONS TRADICIONALS. Alguns dels comportaments extraordinaris dels ocells son enigmes quesembla que ampliin els limits de l'ocellitat: una mare ocell que mataels seus pollets, i una altra que desinteressadament te cura dels jovesd'altres ocells com si fossin seus. Ocells joves que s'aboquen a alimentarels seus germans, i d'altres tan competitius que apunyalen els companysde niu fins a matar-los. Ocells que creen precioses obres d'art, i ocellsque gratuitament destrueixen les creacions d'altres ocells. Ocells, comla gralla d'ales blanques, que tenen les seves contradiccions: un ocellassassi que empala la presa en punxes o en forques de les branques, peroque canta tan bellament que els compositors han creat peces senceresal voltant del seu cant; un altre amb una reputacio de solemnitat que esfortament addicte al joc, i un altre que col·labora amb una especie -elshumans- pero en parasita una altra de manera macabra. Ocells que fanregals i ocells que roben, que ballen i que tamborinegen, que pinten lesseves creacions o que es pinten ells mateixos. A partir d'observacions personals, els darrers avenços cientifics i elsviatges arreu del mon relacionats amb l'ornitologia, Jennifer Ackermandemostra clarament que no hi ha un unic taranna d'ocell, sino mes aviatun ventall vertiginos d'especies amb diferents aparences i estils de vida.Com va dir en una ocasio el bioleg E. O. Wilson, quan has vist un ocell, no els has vist tots. TRADUCCIO D'EDUARD CASTANYO * Ackerman ha rebut el National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Non-Fiction, una Bunting Fellowship, i una beca Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Si en El ingenio de los pájaros Ackerman reveló la inteligencia y la habilidad social de las aves, en este nuevo libro nos demuestra que los pájaros no tienen una sola manera de ser, sino que existe una asombrosa variedad de conductas incluso dentro de una misma especie. Centrandose en la actividad diaria de las aves, la autora nos muestra que los comportamientos mas inusuales y extremos proporcionan un contraste con lo que los pajaros hacen habitualmente y, por tanto, derriban los intentos de explicar la diversidad ornitologica bajo un solo paraguas. En esta sorprendente obra, Ackerman pone de manifiesto la flexibilidad mental de las aves, un rico repertorio que en esta edicion cuenta con una traduccion especialmente cuidada.

Los pájaros son unos animales con una inteligencia fascinante. Nuevos y revolucionarios estudios de investigación lo demuestran. Mientras viaja alrededor del mundo, Ackerman no sólo narra la historia de la recien descubierta inteligencia de los pajaros, sino que, ademas, profundiza en los ultimos hallazgos acerca del cerebro aviar, que estan cambiando nuestra concepcion de lo que significa ser inteligente. Esta edicion incluye un cuaderno de campo para anotar tus propias observaciones y descubrir las asombrosas habilidades de las aves.

Take flight with the secret life of owls