Bird sense : (Record no. 72336)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
National bibliography number GBB293852
Source bnb
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781408830543 (pbk.) :
International Standard Book Number 140883054X (pbk.) :
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency StDuBDS
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency StDuBDS
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 598.15
Edition number 23
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 598.15
Item number BIR-B
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Birkhead, Tim.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Bird sense :
Medium [Book] :
Remainder of title what it's like to be a bird /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Tim Birkhead.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 265 pages :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: 2012.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it? Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour. There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note All.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Birds
General subdivision Behavior.
852 ## - LOCATION
Piece designation 53817
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Classification part 598.15 BIR-B
-- Elan Vital
Sublocation or collection Ground Floor
Former shelving location Books
Copy number 1
Piece physical condition 1-New
Location JZL-CUI
Holdings
Date last seen Total checkouts Full call number Shelving location Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Home library Barcode Current library Date acquired
09/12/2023   598.15 BIR-B Ground Floor 09/12/2023 Books         Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 53817 Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 09/12/2023