The eye of the sandpiper : : stories from the living world / / Brandon Keim.
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press,, 2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
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245 | 1 | 4 | |a The eye of the sandpiper : |b stories from the living world / |c Brandon Keim. |
264 | 1 | |a Ithaca : |b Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, |c 2017. | |
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Organized chaos makes the beauty of a butterfly -- Chickadees, mutations and the thermodynamics of life -- The photosynthetic salamander -- Human evolution enters an exciting new phase -- Parallel universe of life described far beneath the bottom of the sea -- At the edge of invasion, possible new rules for evolution -- A mud-loving, iron-lunged, jelly-eating ecosystem savior -- Redeeming the lamprey -- Decoding nature's soundtrack -- Being a sandpiper -- Monogamy helps geese reduce stress -- What pigeons teach us about love -- Chimps and the zen of falling water -- How city living is reshaping the brains and behavior of urban animals -- Reconsider the rat : the new science of a reviled rodent -- Monkeys see selves in mirror, open a barrel of questions -- The new anthropomorphism -- Honeybees might have emotions -- A day in the life of NYC's hospital for wild birds -- New Yorkers in uproar over planned mass-killing of swans -- An eel swims in the Bronx -- On Waldman's pond -- The return of the river -- A chimp's day in court : inside the historic demand for nonhuman rights -- Chimpanzee rights get a day in court -- Medical experimentation on chimps is nearing an end. but what about monkeys? -- I, cockroach -- The improbable bee -- The ethics of urban beekeeping -- The wild, secret life of New York City -- Earth is not a garden -- Add a few species. Pull down the fences. Step back -- Feral cats vs. conservation : a truce -- Should animals have a right to privacy? -- When climate change blinds us -- To bring back extinct species, we'll need to change our own -- September 11, fall migration and Occupy Wall Street -- Making sense of seven billion people. | |
588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Natural history |v Anecdotes. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Keim, Brandon. |t Eye of the sandpiper : stories from the living world. |d Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2017 |z 9781501707728 |
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