She demonstrates that birds’ novel or seemingly eccentric behaviors are often clever strategies rooted in evolutionary wisdom as well as complex cognition in different contexts, such as decision-making, finding patterns, and planning for the future. Ackerman is a smooth writer her presentation of ideas is deft, and her anecdotes are consistently engaging. Extreme behavior reveals insights and new perspectives on birds’ adaptation abilities and flexibility of mind. Science journalist Ackerman showcases various aspects of typical bird activity-communicating, working, playing, parenting-that have been “dismissed as anomalies or set aside as abiding mysteries.” In reexamining these behaviors, scientists have been able to identify “remarkable strategies and intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own,” including deception, kidnapping, infanticide, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, and culture. The author of The Genius of Birds returns with an exploration of “surprising and sometimes alarming behavior” of everyday avian activity.
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