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(0)Bernd Heinrich
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
i, 253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A discussion of animal survival in the hot season explores the ways in which animals make the most of the summer's short span by efficiently compacting most of their procreative and survival activities.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Heinrich explores the fascinating science 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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the animal world renews itself? Heinrich focuses his wholly...
