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In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural world's wonders and posing new questions about our relationship to the rest of life on Earth. The stories in The Eye of the Sandpiper are arranged in four thematic sections. Each addresses nature through a different lens. The first is evolutionary and ecological dynamics, from how patterns form on butterfly wings to the ecological importance of oft-reviled lampreys. The second section explores the inner lives of animals, which science has only recently embraced: empathy in rats, emotions in honeybees, spirituality in chimpanzees. The third section contains stories of people acting on insights both ecological and ethological: nourishing blighted rivers, but also caring for injured pigeons at a hospital for wild birds and demanding legal rights for primates. The fourth section unites ecology and ethology in discussions of ethics: how we should think about and behave toward nature, and the place of wildness in a world in which space for wilderness is shrinking. By appreciating the nonhuman world more fully, Keim writes, "I hope people will also act in ways that nourish rather than impoverish its life-which is, ultimately, the problem that needs to be solved at this Anthropocene moment, with a sixth mass extinction looming, once-common animals becoming rare, and Earth straining to support 7.5 billion people. The solution will come from a love of nature rather than chastisement or lamentation."

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	20 juin 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501712654
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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T H E E Y E O F T H E S A N D P I P ER

T H ET H E E Y E O F SANDPIPER

STORIESFROMTHELIVINGWORLD

BR ANDON KEIM

Comstock Publîshîng Assocîates A dîvîsîon o Cornell Unîversîty Press Ithaca and London

Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Keim, Brandon, 1976– author. Title: The eye of the sandpiper : stories from the living world / Brandon Keim. Description: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2016056233 (print) | LCCN 2016056974 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501707728 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501712647 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501712654 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Natural history—Anecdotes. Classiﬁcation: LCC QH45.5 .K45 2017 (print) | LCC QH45.5 (ebook) | DDC 508—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056233

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TOMOMANDDAD

. . . by retaînîng one’s chîldhood love o such thîngs as trees, ﬁshes, butterﬂîes and—to return to my ﬁrst înstance—toads, one makes a peaceul and decent uture a lîttle more probable. . . .

—George Orwell—

CONTENTS

AcknowledgmentsIntroductîon:TreesoLîe

PartI.DynamicsOrganîzedChaosMakestheBeautyoaButterﬂyChîckadees,Mutatîons,andtheThermodynamîcsoLîeThePhotosynthetîcSalamanderHumanEvolutîonEntersanExcîtîngNewPhase“Parallel Unîverse” o Lîe Descrîbed Far beneath the Bottom o the SeaAttheEdgeoInvasîon,PossîbleNewRulesorEvolutîonAMudLovîng,IronLunged,JellyEatîngEcosystemSavîorRedeemîngtheLamprey

DecodîngNature’sSoundtrack

PartII.InnerLivesBeîngaSandpîper

xî 

5 7  4 7

22 26 29 32 37

45 47

v i i i C O N T E N T S

MonogamyHelpsGeeseReduceStressWhatPîgeonsTeachUsaboutLoveChîmpsandtheZenoFallîngWaterHowCîtyLîvîngIsReshapîngtheBraînsandBehavîoro Urban AnîmalsReconsîdertheRat:TheNewScîenceoaRevîledRodentMonkeysSeeSelvesînMîrror,OpenaBarreloQuestîonsTheNewAnthropomorphîsm

HoneybeesMîghtHaveEmotîons

PartIII.IntersectionsADayîntheLîeoNYC’sHospîtalorWîldBîrdsNewYorkersînUproaroverPlannedMassKîllîngoSwansAnEelSwîmsîntheBronxOnWaldman’sPondTheReturnotheRîverAChîmp’sDayînCourt:InsîdetheHîstorîcDemandorNonhuman RîghtsChîmpanzeeRîghtsGetaDayînCourtMedîcalExperîmentatîononChîmpsIsNearînganEnd.But What about Monkeys?

I, Cockroach

PartIV.Ethics

TheImprobableBeeTheEthîcsoUrbanBeekeepîngTheWîld,SecretLîeoNewYorkCîtyEarthIsNotaGarden

58 60 67

7 75 84 88 02

105 07  5 9 23

32 47

5 56

163 65 67 70 8

C O N T E N T S i x

AddaFewSpecîes.PullDowntheFences.StepBack.FeralCatsvs.Conservatîon:ATruceShouldAnîmalsHaveaRîghttoPrîvacy?WhenClîmateChangeBlîndsUsToBrîngBackExtînctSpecîes,We’llNeedtoChangeOurOwnSeptember,FallMîgratîon,andOccupyWallStreetMakîngSenseo7BîllîonPeople

ReerencesIndex

94 98 20 205 209 22 26

29 247

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