How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature

by Herman H. Shugart

Book Overview

In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould, H. H. Shugart entertains and enlightens with parables from the amazing world of birds and mammals

Although people have been altering earth's landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, noted ecologist H. H. Shugart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300122705
• ISBN13: 9780300122701
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Terrific read; entertaining and educational

This book satisfies on several levels. It's wonderfully entertaining and at the same time manages to clearly explain important scientific concepts. I finished the book with a much better understanding of ecological issues - and a deeper appreciation for this marvelously complex world in which we live.

Unusual stories of animals and birds in the wild

Unusual stories of animals and birds in the wild form the foundation of professor H.H. Shugart's survey of ecology in How The Earthquake Bird Got Its Name And Other Tales Of An Unbalanced Nature. Ecology's most important principles are illustrated within these stories of selected birds and mammals and their fates and interactions with the environment in a discourse which seamlessly smoothes together such disparate topics as GIS prediction of environmental climate changes and species effects to complex disturbances in bird habitats.