Bernd Heinrich
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 humansÂ 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:Â 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.Â Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark â€œmarvelous, mind-alteringâ€ prose (,Los Angeles Times,), he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birdsâ€”and reminds us that to discount our own emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself.
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration