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Author: Antone Martinho-Truswell (Dean, Graduate House, St Paul's College, University of Sydney)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.360kg
ISBN: 9780198846109
ISBN 10: 019884610
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 10 March 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Engagingly and entertainingly written, this book places some of the many recent discoveries about bird intelligence into a fascinating human-bird framework. * Tim Birkhead * This is a short book written in a refreshingly readable style.[...]The Parrot in the Mirror is clever, fun, and [...] reminds us that wonder exists far beyond our own species. * Henry Mance, Financial Times * Having read [The Parrot in the Mirror], you won't look at yourself in the mirror in quite the same way. * Simon Ings, New Scientist *
Martinho-Truswell reports lots of interesting animal behavior here. Readers will learn a lot about the capabilities of the bird brain and body as well as their own. * Joanna. Burger, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick * A must read for anyone with an interest in bird/human behavior. * Ian Paulsen, Macquarie University, The Birdbooker Report * entertaining * Clive Cookson, Financial Times, Summer Books 2022: Science * It's a fascinating, indeed almost surreal topic, and the book is full of facts and observations about how birds, and we, have evolved in similarly exceptional ways. * Gregory Day, Sydney Morning Herald * Engagingly and entertainingly written, this book places some of the many recent discoveries about bird intelligence into a fascinating human-bird framework. * Tim Birkhead * This is a short book written in a refreshingly readable style.[...]The Parrot in the Mirror is clever, fun, and [...] reminds us that wonder exists far beyond our own species. * Henry Mance, Financial Times * Having read [The Parrot in the Mirror], you won't look at yourself in the mirror in quite the same way. * Simon Ings, New Scientist *
Having read [The Parrot in the Mirror], you won't look at yourself in the mirror in quite the same way. * Simon Ings, New Scientist *
Author Information
Antone Martinho-Truswell is a behavioural ecologist whose work focuses on animal minds and learning, especially in birds and cephalopods, intelligent species whose evolutionary history differs dramatically from that of mammals. He has been published in Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Current Biology, and elsewhere, and has been covered in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Times, and The New Scientist, as well as on BBC Radio and TalkRadio. He has also written on longstanding questions in biology, animal behaviour, and human society for Aeon and the BBC. Martinho-Truswell is currently Dean of Graduate House at St Paul's College, Sydney, and was previously Fellow in Biology at Magdalen College, Oxford.
