A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
Darwin was puzzled by it, and so is everyone else: a South American falcon with the curiosity and problem-solving of a crow, followed through evolution and the Falklands.
Meiburg follows the striated caracara, a falcon that behaves like a crow, lives at the end of South America and puzzled Darwin, through evolutionary history, the Falklands, and the archives of W. H. Hudson. Natural history written with a musician’s ear, by someone who has spent years in the places he describes.
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Jonathan Meiburg investigates and celebrates these “disarmingly conscious” animals in his wonderful book A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (public library), largely inspired by the legacy of William Henry Hudson and written with kindred literary splendor.
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