03376cam a2200301 4500 591548968 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593349021 0593349024 97f720b5-fe5b-45d9-9ab2-69b112e40727 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5587958 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Meiburg, Jonathan. A Most Remarkable Creature [Libby] : The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey. Books on Tape, 2021. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 271MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 271MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of <i>The Bird Way</i><br /> <i>“</i>A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story<i>.</i>”—David Sibley, author of <i>What It's Like to Be a Bird</i><br /> An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.<br /> “As curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent as its subject.”—Charles C. Mann, author of <i>1491</i></b><br /> In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the <i>Beagle</i>. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it.<br /> &#160;<br /> Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. <i>A Most Remarkable Creature</i> is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and absolutely riveting. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97f720b5-fe5b-45d9-9ab2-69b112e40727&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97f720b5-fe5b-45d9-9ab2-69b112e40727&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)