Describes how birds use their senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and magnetic field detection to interpret their environment and to interact with one another.
Examines the more advanced senses of birds--like flamingos' ability to sense rain falling miles away, or how some birds use the earth's magnetic field as navigation--and uses these insights to explore bird behavior.
how two amateur scientists created the first genetically engineered animal
Birkhead, T. R
2003
Describes how high school teacher Hans Duncker and shopkeeper Karl Reich created a new bird, the red canary, in 1920s Germany, and became the first people to genetically engineer an organism.
