Where song began : Australia's birds and how they changed the world / Tim Low.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Viking, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670077960Subject(s): Birds -- Behavior -- Australia | Birds -- Australia -- HistoryDDC classification: 598.0994 Summary: Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive and loud, to live in complex societies, and to be large and long-lived.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-377) and index.
Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive and loud, to live in complex societies, and to be large and long-lived.
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