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Author Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-

Title The homing instinct : meaning & mystery in animal migration / Bernd Heinrich.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  591.568 HEINRICH    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  591.56 HEINRICH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  591.56 HEINRICH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  591.568 HEINRICH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  591.568 HEINRICH    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  591.56 HEINRICH, BERND    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  591.56 HEINRICH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  591.56 HEI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  591.568 HEI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  591.568 HEINRICH    Check Shelf

Description xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-343) and index.
Contents Homing. Cranes coming home ; Beelining ; Getting to a good place ; By the sun, stars, and magnetic compass ; Smelling their way home ; Picking the spot -- Home-making and maintaining. Architectures of home ; Home-making in Suriname ; Home crashers ; Charlotte II : a home within a home ; The communal home -- Homing implications. The in and out of boundaries ; Of trees, rocks, a bear, and a home ; On home ground ; Fire, hearth, and home ; Homing to the herd.
Summary Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep in the bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing? Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries 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. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark "marvelous, mind altering" prose (Los Angeles Times), he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birds, and reminds us that to discount our own emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself.
Local Note BURLADFIC, ENFDNFIC
Subject Animal homing.
ISBN 9780544484016 paperback
9780547198484
0547198485
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