By Tim Low
well known for its gallery of surprising mammals, Australia can also be a land of remarkable birds. yet not like the mammals, the birds of Australia flew past the continent’s limitations and around the world many thousands of years in the past. This eye-opening ebook tells the dynamic yet little-known tale of ways Australia supplied the area with songbirds and parrots, between different chicken teams, why Australian birds wield astounding ecological energy, how Australia grew to become an enormous evolutionary heart, and why clinical biases have hindered reputation of those discoveries.
From violent, swooping magpies to tool-making cockatoos, Australia’s birds are strikingly diverse from birds of different lands—often extra clever and competitive, frequently higher and longer-lived. Tim Low, a well known biologist with a unprecedented storytelling present, the following provides the fantastic evolutionary background of Australia’s birds. the tale of the birds, it seems, is inseparable from the tale of the continent itself and likewise the folks who inhabit it.
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