| Ways of Nature Contributor(s): Burroughs, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1674075839 ISBN-13: 9781674075839 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General - Nature | Animals - General |
| Dewey: 591.5 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.36 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How much or how little sense or judgment our wild neighbors have is hard to determine. The crows and other birds that carry shell-fish high in the air and then let them drop upon the rocks to break the shell show something very much like reason, or a knowledge of the relation of cause and effect, though it is probably an unthinking habit formed in their ancestors under the pressure of hunger. Froude tells of some species of bird that he saw in South Africa flying amid the swarm of migrating locusts and clipping off the wings of the insects so that they would drop to the earth, where the birds could devour them at their leisure. Our squirrels will cut off the chestnut burs before they have opened, allowing them to fall to the ground, where, as they seem to know, the burs soon dry open.John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. |
