The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration - Hardcover

Heinrich, Bernd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547198485 ISBN 13: 9780547198484

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

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Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing?

Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark “marvelous, mind-altering” prose (Los Angeles Times), he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birds—and reminds us that to discount our own emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself.

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Praise for Life Everlasting

“Bernd Heinrich is one of the finest naturalists of our time. Life Everlasting shines with the authenticity and originality that are unique to a life dedicated to natural history in the field.” — Edward O. Wilson, author of The Future of Life and The Social Conquest of Earth

Praise for Bernd Heinrich

“Remarkable . . . rewarding . . . highly recommended.” — New York Times

“He richly deserves the comparison to Thoreau.” — Washington Post Book World

“Passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science.” — New York Times Book Review

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0547198485
• ISBN 13: 9780547198484
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352