Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds, by Gisela Kaplan
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Recent published papers in the field of neurobiology and neuropsychology have dramatically changed our thinking about the avian brain and behavioral potential of birds, especially in the areas of learning, memory, plasticity, and in the cognitive and emotional domains. Bird Minds provides a fresh view of the behavior of Australian native avifauna, presenting a portrait of cognitive well-equipped species, which is somewhat removed from the traditional image of birds as fluttering, colorful ornaments that tend to move like automata. The book will focus on the specific abilities of Australian birds, examining why they have had to find – largely cognitive – ways of adapting to difficult conditions. The demands of the Australian environment have led to the development of cognitively complex processes that are unique in the world, including complex behaviors 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.
Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds, by Gisela Kaplan- Amazon Sales Rank: #1709728 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .63" h x 5.51" w x 10.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
About the Author Gisela Kaplan is a Research Fellow in the School of Science & Technology (formerly School of Biological, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences) and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Professional Development & Leadership at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. A prolific writer, with 19 published books, she has gained national and international acclaim for her books on bird behavior and animal cognition, among them her book on Australian magpies. Intimately familiar with tawny frogmouths, she now presents the results of 10 years of research on the species.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. More powerful reasons we must learn to share this planet By Tony Smith How long does it take for birds to go from being a nice enough feature of the world we find ourselves in to being interesting for their behaviour? My own journey has been over 20 years and is still accelerating, hints of which are in my Vimeo collection: vimeo.com/channels/593799 Gisela Kaplan's journey has been 15 years and with academic rigour applied to "many breathtaking discoveries that have changed forever the landscape of our knowledge about animal cognition".Bird Minds builds an argument across Chapters 3-11 identifying behaviours which challenge the old paradigm that followed Descartes and Skinner of assumed human uniqueness, but is careful not to call out that old paradigm for the nonsense it has clearly become. At most Kaplan hints at where the evidence is taking us through willingness to put 'intelligence' in scare quotes. Only in an epilogue that follows broad assessments of target orders in the final chapter, is there a hint that there is a lot more to the story beyond this necessarily constrained setting out of recent revelations as they apply to the author's focus domain of Australian native birds.The opening chapter sets the background of recent identification that birds have reradiated from East Gondwana since the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, making Australia/Sahul the home of birds and base of bird diversification. The second chapter sets out the old paradigm presumptions which the subsequent evidence lays asunder, especially neurological quantifications embodying anthropocentric prejudices.I came to Bird Minds following Carl Safina's 2015 Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel which makes parallel claims for selected non-primate mammalian orders: elephants, wolves and Ornicus; and that from Robert G B Reid's 2007 Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) which sets out an alternate theoretical framing for animal evolution in which behavioural exploration precedes niche adaptation. Taken to its logical conclusion this would situate the origin of the general repertoire of bilateral animal behaviour back in the ninety million years between the collapse of Snowball Earth and the bilateral animal fossils of the Ediacaran. As Reid explains, there have been a few clear saltations since such as air breathing which opened new frontiers, but the essential complex behaviours needed to underpin feeding, breeding, recognition of kind and spatial mapping to allow movement, and more must have all been in place all along, alongside our shared developmental physiology that maintains integrity.While my own attention has been as much on water/shore birds as the parrots, corvids and songbirds which are the primary focus of Bird Minds, I finished reading and am writing this review having returned to this place evacuated Christmas Day while in sight of the Wye River fire where Kaplan's observations of magpies and kookaburras ring true loudly every day. Our ever loyal magpie couple, one living life to the full despite a long bad foot, clearly ran out of patience with one of the young squawking kookaburras and chased it out of camp, while the patient kookaburra parent keeps trying to teach them not just how to make a living but how to deliver the famous kookaburra laugh. Meanwhile the magpie songs enrich our visitor experience, as do many other avian species.Read Bird Minds so you have a lot more in mind when you see birds in the wild, be it in the bush or grassland, by stream or lake, at the beach or even in suburbia which many are recolonising. The most interesting behaviours are usually too quick to pull a camera out, so just watch and see that birds really do have minds of their own which are as competent at guiding their complex lives as ours are at surviving the industrially sterilised world of our own making.Science gets things right when it remains open to evidence. There never was a scientific basis for the presumption of human uniqueness. It was cultural prejudice writ large and not shared by even indigenous cultures. What is indisputably unique is in the collective via the division of labour on a scale only preceded by eusocial insects. We are organised animals with access to an explosive growth of knowledge, some of which is now undermining our anthropocentric comfort zone. That singing magpie and Bird Minds remind us that "bird brain" may be the most misplaced insult ever conceived.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. All you Northern Hemisphere ornithologists, not so fast with your generalizations! Some amazing behaviors in down under birds. By lyndonbrecht This is an outstanding read--for the right readers. It is rather heavy on science, quite up to date, although accessible to readers with some science backgrounds. It's obviously centered on Australian birds (and therefore mostly on Australian research, which appears vigorous). There is something of an axe to grind, as well; Kaplan sees many general conclusions about bird behaviors (such as cooperative behaviors and lifetime pair bonding) as based on what she calls high-latitude species (that is, European and American studies). That's assuming general patterns from studies that are somewhat limited in geographic scope. Many Australian species exhibit cooperative behavior, long-lasting pair bonding, and long lifespans (one cockatoo may live to 110). Kaplan also looks closely at tool use in birds, and notes that most research has been with crows.Readers who wish to cut to the essential information quickly could look at the tables. A long table in Appendix 1 lists hundreds of birds by several categories, including tool use--dozens of species use different tools in a variety of ways. This is discussed at length. Aside from the male palm cockatoo using sticks for drumming, there's an apparently credible report of black kites picking up smoldering fire sticks and dropping them to light fires and waiting for prey to be flushed out.Kaplan considers how Australia's geologic history has shaped Australian birds, including arid conditions, sporadic availability of food and isolation from other land masses. Many of the birds have wonderful names: the striated pardalote, grey-crowned babbler, spangled drongo, rufous whistler, willie wagtail.There's also some wonderful odd behavior. Banteng (from Southeast Asia, a population flourishing in Australia) approached by a Torresian crow rolling over with four feet in the air, so the bird can pick off ticks. And a bird apparently luring prey by calling, a sort of siren song.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Utterly Brilliant By Amazon Customer Methodical, uncompromising, the best of great science, humility and selfless service on behalf of the most important of all terrestrial vertebrates - avifauna.
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