{"product_id":"9780593832585","title":"Pluck: How the New Science of Female Birds Is Upending the Avian World","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eAckerman, Jennifer\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePenguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/20\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhat an Owl Knows\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Genius of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bird Way\u003c\/i\u003e, the first, groundbreaking investigation about how female birds live\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent studies about female birds upend everything we thought we knew about birds. Until now, research focused almost exclusively on the male half of the class. But female Northern Cardinals learn their songs three times faster. Female House Wrens can be even more aggressive. Female birds in general also often have entirely different migratory patterns and are quicker to adapt to climate change. They talk to their young when they are still in the egg and even chirp “passwords” to their nestlings that signify safety. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer  Ackerman has been writing about birds  for over twenty years and grew up with the conventional wisdom found in  field guides and bird books. According to them, females were drab and  passive. They didn’t sing. They were good mothers, sitting faithfully on  their eggs, tending and feeding their young. Nothing could be further  from the truth. From ice-filled New Hampshire lakes to the deep recesses  of the Amazonian jungles, female birds are both \u003ci\u003emore \u003c\/i\u003elike males  than we thought—capable of typical male behaviors like aggression,  competition, complex song, and sexual assertiveness—and \u003ci\u003eless\u003c\/i\u003e like  them, with radically different ways of living and surviving than their  male counterparts, wildly different skills, opportunities, and risks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy have we gotten things so wrong? What has held science back on the female front? It is important that we find out, for as Ackerman writes, “conservation planning has long been aimed at protecting male-dominated habitats.” Some female birds have lost almost twice as much ground as the males over the past few decades. Bird lovers will receive no better gift than this extraordinary chance to fly higher and further than was ever possible before, to see all birds, and then save them, too.","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48897749483775,"sku":"9780593832585","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780593832585","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}