ccpprrjj 's review for:

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Bernd Heinrich

3.5

funny informative reflective slow-paced

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This was a decent book, I just struggled to get into it.  The topic was fascinating.  Ravens are such intelligent birds!  And it was really cool to read about how the author ran his experiments.  They way he thought through his set up and his surprise at the results was really cool to read.  It was also interesting how often his papers about those experiments were refused by publishers because they were too 'anthropomorphized'.  It's interesting how far we've come since this book was written in acknowledging the intelligence of nonhuman animals, and yet there are definitely people who still say those things today.  Overall, it was a decent book and I'm glad I read it.