The eye of the sandpiper : stories from the living world

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)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Natural history > Anecdotes.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
Natural history
Anecdotes
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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