The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think.

In this way, Ackerman gives us a front row seat on the excitement of behavioral research, and insights into the ways in which the quirky personalities of bird behavior researchers are reflected in their science. Birdsong is repeatedly compared to language, cognitively complex birds are compared to five-year-old human children, and the stealthy sex habits of Arabian babblers are compared to human predilection for sexual privacy. [Extracted from the article]