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Escorted Touring – Cover a lot of ground and discover ‘off-the-beaten-track’ places with the help of your expert guide. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Thought I understood how ants find their way around, but was further off than a human lost in the woods. Now I understand that those bugs and birds are the "supernavigators", but honestly, at some point it got incredibly boring to hear about ants again. I wonder if, instead of the very brief animal-based chapters, the book would have been better served by longer, topic-focussed chapters, such as olfactory, magnetic etc.
This might be the most educational popular science book I've read, and it doesn't get caught up in the common pitfalls of euphemisms, too many metaphors or simplifying fascinating themes. Fox, the film keeps the same basic story line, but adds a subplot in which the kids are dealing with a new step-family. The Literary Leaf covers all aspects of the KS2 content domain and takes children through the book, unpicking vocabulary and getting them to imagine themselves as an explorer to immerse themslves in the choices made by real people. This book is packed with extraordinary tales of the navigational abilities of the animal world, and the importance of understanding them . Its true that it allows covering a lot more of topics but there is this feeling of cutting it short.Unlike the original story, the wilderness through which the three animals journey across is in the Sierra Nevada mountains, not the forested wilderness of Ontario. Mary Healy for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be where the Holy Spirit manifested himself with magnificent love and radiant glory to his Chosen People, in the conception, life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and at Pentecost to his apostles! This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the methods and theories behind different ways of natural navigation.
What is engrossing about Barrie's book is not just the remarkable behaviour of the individual animals.
The majority of a chapter would be dedicated to a discussion of a particular animal or mode of navigation and then the last 10% repeatedly digressed into something tangentially related at best. Birds have been particularly well studied (see for example Long Hops: Making Sense of Bird Migration or the thorough The Avian Migrant: The Biology of Bird Migration, classics such as The Migration Ecology of Birds and Bird Migration: A General Survey, or the very recent A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration), and there are plenty of examples given here of the globe-spanning excursions that birds are so well-known for.
Then there is the contested but increasingly well-supported idea that pigeons might be using low-frequency sound (infrasound) generated by natural processes such as wind, waves, and earthquakes. I realize that I am being mammal centric here but it is a book review, and I think for the average reader the bugs and birds should be a third. Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they get there has remained surprisingly mysterious—until now. With insightful text from Thomas Cussans, and fantastic images from the breathtaking summits to the perilous high seas, this book will truly inspire.Barrie mentions well-known examples, such as bees and their famous waggle dance (heavily borrowing from The Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language), the ability of many insects to observe polarised light (we here meet the specialised area in insect eyes that Land also described in Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature), or the migrations of the monarch butterfly (see also Chasing Monarchs: Migrating With the Butterflies of Passage). I have so far studiously avoided mentioning the two bigger topics that take up quite a bit of space in this book: bird navigation and the role of Earth’s magnetic field.
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