The Homing Instinct - Bernd Heinrich - Music - Hmh Audio - 9781094064314 - February 18, 2020
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The Homing Instinct

Bernd Heinrich

The Homing Instinct

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.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released February 18, 2020
ISBN13 9781094064314
Label Hmh Audio
Dimensions 150 g   (Weight (estimated))

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