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Title: Mind of the Raven : Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0-06-093063-2 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Entertaining and Enlightening Book
Comment: A delightful book, "Mind of the Raven" takes the reader into the life of a truly amazing bird. Professor Heinrich writes more than just statistical trends: he brings us on a journey that makes us feel as though we know these birds personally. The book includes the results of Heinrich's studies, his personal interpretations and many, many wonderful stories about Heinrich's relationships with these birds. This is a very personal book, and goes beyond watching from a distance. Some scientists from certain schools of thought may find the book to be poor science. I couldn't disagree more. In a time when behaviorists are admitting that animals are conscious creatures, and the studies of animal behavior and cognitive psychology are slowly becoming one, Heinrich presents some fresh looks and new, creative methods to study animal minds. One can never truly know an animal until one is able to know what it knows, and why it feels that it does what it does. Bernd Heinrich certainly doesn't have all the answers - nor does he claim to - but he brings us as close to this kind of understanding as anybody possibly could. Dr. Heinrich, despite what critics say, keep up the wonderful work that you do. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but someday, this sort of research will be crucial to animal behavior/psychology studies, and you will have been one a small few who helped to usher it in. I highly recommend this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing Investigations into the Lives and Minds of Ravens
Comment: In "Mind of the Raven", biologist Bernd Heinrich delves into the behavior of ravens as individuals who might have a conscious choice, as opposed to taking a strictly behavioral ecologist perspective of those behaviors as being simply the results of evolutionary necessity. Heinrich strives to share the insight into the world of ravens which he gained over the course of nearly a decade of studying and interacting with ravens, both wild and captive, at his Vermont and Maine homes. "Mind of the Raven" isn't confined to the birds' intelligence or consciousness, although chapters on these fascinating and controversial subjects are included. The "mind" of the book's title encompasses all behavior and experience in these birds' lives. Heinrich details innumerable observations and experiments which he conducted on the subjects of raven feeding and educating their young, cooperation, hunting, adoption, dominance, sensory perception, individual recognition, communication, fears, interaction with other animals, caching, deception, play, intelligence, and emotions. Heinrich seems to possess an insatiable -and infectious- curiosity about these magnificent birds, which is demonstrated in his exhausting and endlessly inventive experiments. Heinrich's studies are as controlled and straightforward as possible. And although they sometimes raise more questions than they answer, they never fail to entertain or to impress the reader with the complexity and variety of raven personalities. It's nice to read a book by a scientist who has such an enthusiasm for his field of study, as well as genuine affection for his subjects. "Mind of the Raven" is a very readable broad account of the lives and minds of these large, clever corvids that have so populated human folklore and experience for thousands of years. I recommend it to any bird-lover, and those who have occasion to observe ravens will find Bernd Heinrich's insights especially interesting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating insights into the life and mind of ravens
Comment: This is an amazing book. It's not an exaggeration to say that this is the most fascinating book I've ever read. I've always marveled at the idiosyncratic behavior of ravens, the sense of play that seems to pervade so much of what they do, and at their inventiveness. Reading this book takes me back the times I've sat in the mountains watching ravens. What an easy way to travel so far. And finally, after reading this book, I feel that I have at least a little insight into these incredible birds. I can't recommend this book too highly.
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Title: Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0679732365 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Winter World : The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0060197447 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays by Candace Savage ISBN: 0871569566 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The American Crow and the Common Raven (The W.L. Moody Jr Natural History Series, No 10) by Lawrence Kilham, Joan Waltermire ISBN: 0890964661 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: One Man's Owl : (Abridged Edition) by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0691000654 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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