Read The Thing with Feathers Online
Authors: Noah Strycker
magnetism
avian navigation,
17
–18,
20
starling flock behavior,
47
–48
magpie-larks,
197
magpies
black-billed magpies,
192
,
194
Eurasian,
187
,
192
,
194
,
198
funerals,
194
–95
intelligence,
192
,
195
,
201
lore concerning,
190
–92
recognition of human faces,
192
–93
self-recognition,
187
–89,
195
species of,
192
taunting of larger animals,
193
and theft,
193
–94
Mallow, Johannes,
171
manakins,
134
–35
Manx shearwaters,
7
–9
Mazzeo, Rosario,
8
–9
memory
brain-computer metaphor,
178
–79
cognitive processing limit of seven items,
47
competitions,
169
–71,
176
–78
episodic memory,
200
–201
loss through disuse,
180
–81
memory-palace mnemonic technique,
175
–78,
179
See also
nutcrackers
Miller, George,
46
Moore, Joe,
110
mourning doves,
253
murmuration display,
29
–31,
48
music.
See
dance and music
natural selection.
See
evolutionary strategies
navigation.
See
homing; pigeons
Nazca boobies,
254
New Guinea birds of paradise,
133
nomads
food-specialist birds,
78
–79
humans,
87
–88
snowy owls,
77
,
81
,
84
,
85
–86,
88
northern cardinals,
195
–97
northern finches,
78
–79
Nowak, Martin,
236
–38
nutcrackers
Clark’s nutcracker,
165
–66,
168
,
172
–74,
179
–80
distinguishing characteristics,
166
intelligence,
167
mental maps and spatial memory,
169
,
172
–74,
180
seed caching,
167
–69
winter nesting,
166
–67
olfaction
black vultures,
63
condors,
54
mercaptan compounds and,
59
–60
pigeon navigation,
18
–19
seabirds,
61
taste perception and,
65
See also
turkey vultures
owls.
See
snowy owls
Parisi, Giorgio,
44
parrots
African gray parrot (Alex),
138
intelligence,
192
sulphur-crested cockatoo (Snowball),
129
–33,
135
,
138
,
139
synchronization of movement to external rhythm,
137
,
143
vasa parrot,
252
passenger pigeons,
42
,
43
Patel, Aniruddh,
129
–33,
137
–38,
139
,
142
pecking order
favorite-foods exercise,
155
–56,
157
–58
king chicken theorems,
157
pigeon flock behavior,
21
round-robin-style tournaments,
150
–52,
156
,
157
transitive relationships,
152
–54
triangular relationships,
152
,
156
See also
chickens
penguins
diurnal habit,
124
–25
emperor penguin,
125
fear of predatory leopard seals,
116
–17,
125
–26
king penguin,
253
nesting routines,
262
Penguin Science tracking project,
110
–12
reluctance to enter water,
115
–16
rockhopper penguin,
262
tame and approachable nature,
109
–11,
112
,
122
wintertime northward migration,
124
,
125
peregrine falcons,
76
–77
pigeons
Birmingham roller,
15
conditioning to human presence,
114
diurnal habit,
16
–17
doves,
14
,
252
–53
flock behavior,
21
,
42
infrasound navigation,
19
intelligence,
19
–20,
25
,
153
lost birds,
5
–6,
19
,
20
–21,
23
–25
magnetic-field sensitivity,
17
–18
military communications uses,
12
–13
mourning doves,
253
multiple navigation methods,
12
,
16
,
17
,
19
–20
navigational abilities among various species,
14
–15
olfactory navigation,
18
–19
passenger pigeons,
42
,
43
racing events,
11
,
13
–14,
22
–23
Racing Homer,
15
sun-based navigation,
16
,
17
tippler,
15
training for racing,
15
,
21
–22,
23
,
25
training for self-recognition,
201
–2
visual mapping by landmarks,
15
–16
Pinker, Steven,
140
–41
Plutchik, Robert,
118
–19
prisoner’s dilemma,
228
–31,
236
purple-crowned fairy-wrens
genetic relationships and cooperative nesting,
224
,
227
,
228
group living,
239
–40
nest productivity,
234
plumage,
223
Racing Homer pigeons,
15
red-capped manakins,
134
redpolls,
78
,
79
regent bowerbirds,
206
Renaud, Captain,
11
Reynolds, Craig,
34
rhythm.
See
dance and music; parrots
robins,
17
,
122
–23,
197
rockhopper penguins,
262