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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
by Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich is an American naturalist and a behavioral ecologist. Mind of the Raven is a collection of raven studies based on wild ravens and the author's own hand reared ravens. It covers a wide range of topics from individual ravens to raven's social life, social structure, bonding, nesting and parenting, to how ravens recognize humans and other ravens, to the symbiosis between ravens and wolves and between ravens and human hunters, and to raven intelligence and complex behaviors such as playing, puzzle solving and tool using.
Ravens are smart, social birds, and each raven can show distinct individuality in temperament, behavior and intelligence. Ravens are especially good at picking up visual cues, but not scents. Some ravens can mimic sounds and voices as well as patriots can.
Chapter 26 Testing Raven Intelligence: "It is hardly to be expected that human, animal would be qualitatively different from all others. The psychologists who have studied learning in rats and pigeons have assumed and found similarities across species. If that is anthropomorphizing, I am all for it. There is no evidence to suggest that humans have some new or different, mysterious vital essence that other animals lack."
The audiobook is well-narrated. It would be great that in the future, for a book like this, recordings of sounds (such as raven calls) could be included.
Ravens are smart, social birds, and each raven can show distinct individuality in temperament, behavior and intelligence. Ravens are especially good at picking up visual cues, but not scents. Some ravens can mimic sounds and voices as well as patriots can.
Chapter 26 Testing Raven Intelligence: "It is hardly to be expected that human, animal would be qualitatively different from all others. The psychologists who have studied learning in rats and pigeons have assumed and found similarities across species. If that is anthropomorphizing, I am all for it. There is no evidence to suggest that humans have some new or different, mysterious vital essence that other animals lack."
The audiobook is well-narrated. It would be great that in the future, for a book like this, recordings of sounds (such as raven calls) could be included.