Messages from an Owl / / Max R. Terman.
When zoologist Max Terman came to the rescue of a great horned owlet in a Kansas town park, he embarked on an adventure that would test his scientific ingenuity and lead to unprecedented observations of an owl's hidden life in the wild. In Messages from an Owl, Terman not only relates his exper...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | With a New epilogue by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
326 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 65 halftones 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Launching New Life
- Basic Needs and Basic Training
- Of Genes and Environment
- Playing Out the Internal Program
- On Becoming Independent
- Achieving Adulthood
- Stretching the Boundaries
- Both Tame and Wild
- The Way to the Wild
- The Testing of a New Owl
- In Search of a Niche
- Strange Behavior
- Kansas Owl
- Beating the Odds
- Reunited
- Home, Sweet Home
- Hooting
- Fitness, the Final Measure of Success
- Hooter-Another Owl, Another Story
- Capture
- Of Owls and Science
- Screechy and the King of the Silo
- Part of the Web
- Comparisons and Connections
- Revelation
- Postscript
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Chronology
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index