Their Fate Is Our Fate (eBook)

How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

Peter Doherty (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
240 Seiten
The Experiment (Verlag)
978-1-61519-182-6 (ISBN)

Infos

At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world-from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef-Doherty illuminates birds' role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our own well-being.Their Fate Is Our Fate is an impassioned call not only to attention but to action. As "e;citizen scientists"e; we can collect data, vital to cutting-edge research, that depends on the birds that are all around us. Armed with our observations, scientists will continue to uncover new ways to glimpse our future in birds-and to affirm how, truly, their fate is our fate.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• ISBN-10: 1-61519-182-8 / 1615191828
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61519-182-6 / 9781615191826