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 enlarge | Author: Candace Savage
Publisher: Greystone Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
Buy Used: $9.00
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New (35) Used (9) from $9.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 279978
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 155365286X
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.864
EAN: 9781553652861
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
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 A most digestible, intriguing survey. January 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Crows are toolmakers, tool users, and have complex family lives as well as their own language. Sounds too human to believe? Then you have to read up on them in CROWS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WISE GUYS. CROWS celebrates crow abilities, surveying their behavior, natural history, and more. Observations by scientists around the world are based on more than a decade of research and blend stories about crows with scientific observation to make for a most digestible, intriguing survey.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Illustrations Supreme August 8, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Although there are quite a few miles between Saskatoon and New York, it seems clear to me that many of Candace Savage's Wise Guys and ours must be relatives! They've worked out a real-estate-sharing arrangement with cardinals, blue jays, and many smaller birds (plus squirrels, etc.) -- all in and around a huge oak tree in our back yard. If they're not out and around, I know it's not going to be such a good day.
Ms. Savage covers crow-family relationships and behavior as well as their interactions with urban or rural human surroundings. Her illustrations are many and as varied and wonderful as their subjects - current and historic, geographically and culturally significant. She has an excellent additional reference list and a good index.
Scientists around the world observe March 18, 2006
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Crows are toolmakers, tool users, and have complex family lives as well as their own language. Sounds too human to believe? Then you have to read up on them in CROWS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WISE GUYS. CROWS celebrates crow abilities, surveying their behavior, natural history, and more. Observations by scientists around the world are based on more than a decade of research and blend stories about crows with scientific observation to make for a most digestible, intriguing survey.
Fascinating Tricksters March 8, 2006
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you, like me, love the image of Crows as "swaggering black-clad wise guys", then this book is for you!
Candace Savage's book is not an acedemic tome, or a scientific study..it's a wonderful, witty, captivating exploration into these amazing birds.
The many beautiful illustrations, including several by Arthur Rackham, as well as Pacific Northwest Indian designs, are a treasure in themselves, and her inclusion of myths and legends of this fabled bird make this book an incredible treat. I laughed and cackled all the way through it!
Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys February 17, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I love this book. It is beautifully done. When I ordered it, I was looking for a book with an overview of the intelligence of Crows and that is exactly what I got...along with beautiful pictures and interesting folk tales about corvids. This book is a good stepping off point for people who have a casual interest and would like to get started learning about crows. There is a very good listing of books in the back of this book for further reading about these magnificant birds.
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