The eye of the sandpiper : stories from the living world / Brandon Keim.

In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay G...

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Main Author: Keim, Brandon, 1976- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 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. 
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520 |a In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural world's wonders and posing new questions about our relationship to the rest of life on Earth. The stories in The Eye of the Sandpiper are arranged in four thematic sections. Each addresses nature through a different lens. The first is evolutionary and ecological dynamics, from how patterns form on butterfly wings to the ecological importance of oft-reviled lampreys. The second section explores the inner lives of animals, which science has only recently embraced: empathy in rats, emotions in honeybees, spirituality in chimpanzees. The third section contains stories of people acting on insights both ecological and ethological: nourishing blighted rivers, but also caring for injured pigeons at a hospital for wild birds and demanding legal rights for primates. The fourth section unites ecology and ethology in discussions of ethics: how we should think about and behave toward nature, and the place of wildness in a world in which space for wilderness is shrinking. By appreciating the nonhuman world more fully, Keim writes, "I hope people will also act in ways that nourish rather than impoverish its life--which is, ultimately, the problem that needs to be solved at this Anthropocene moment, with a sixth mass extinction looming, once-common animals becoming rare, and Earth straining to support 7.5 billion people. The solution will come from a love of nature rather than chastisement or lamentation." 
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