WHY BIRDS SING: A JOURNEY INTO THE MYSTERY OF BIRDSONG
Book ID/图书代码： 00500005B07217
English Summary/英文概要： A beautiful and surprising exploration of a phenomenon that’s at once familiar and baffling: the mystery of why birds sing.
The astonishing variety and richness of bird song is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Biologists have never been able to understand why bird song displays are often so inventive and why so many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations, which generally have to do with territoriality and sexual display, don’t begin to account for the astonishing variety and energy that the commonest birds exhibit. Is it possible that birds sing because they like to? This seemingly na•ve explanation is starting to look more and more like the truth.
In the tradition of classic works by Bernd Heinrich, Edward Abbey, and Terry Tempest Williams, Why Birds Sing is a lyric exploration of bird song that blends the latest scientific research with a deep understanding of musical beauty and form. Based on conversations with neuroscientists, ecologists, and composers, it is the first book to investigate why birds sing and how, and what effect their music has on other animals-particularly humans. Whether playing the clarinet with the white-crested laughing thrush in Pittsburgh, or jamming in the Australian winter breeding grounds of the Albert’s lyrebird, Rothenberg journeys to the heart and soul of bird song. Why Birds Sing offers an intimate look at the most lovely of natural phenomena-with surprising insights about the origin of music.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个美丽的和令人惊讶的探索，探索在我们熟知却又充满疑问的一个现象：为什么鸟儿会歌唱这个奥秘。
鸟儿歌声惊人的多样性和丰富性在审美和科学角度来说都是一个谜。生物学家一直不能够理解为什么鸟的歌声可以常常展现出如此的富有创造力,为什么那么多的物种会花这么多的时间来唱歌。标准的解释,一般都与领土权和交配信号有关,却从不解释那些最常见的鸟类展现出的惊人的多样性和能量。鸟儿歌唱只是因为他们喜欢，可以这样解释吗?这个看似天真的解释开始变得越来越像真相。
在Bernd Heinrich，Edward Abbey和Terry Tempest Williams的经典著作中，通常他们会认为《为什么鸟儿会歌唱》是一种针对鸟儿歌声的抒情研究,融合了最新的对音乐美和形式有着深刻理解的科学研究。通过与神经学家、生态学家和作曲家进行对话交流为基础,创作出这第一本调查为什么鸟儿会歌唱，他们的音乐对其他动物尤其是人类有什么影响以及如何影响的书籍。不管是在匹兹堡伴着白冠噪鹛吹黑管，还是到达澳大利亚冬天艾伯氏琴鸟的繁殖地上,Rothenberg都在进行着一个探索鸟儿歌唱的内心与灵魂的旅行。《为什么鸟儿会歌唱》通过展现对音乐起源惊人的见解，向人们提供了亲密观赏最可爱自然现象的机会。（LNL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫•罗森伯格是新泽西理工学院的哲学教授。他的作品已经被刊登在了NPR和BBC上,他还为《The Nation》, 《Sierra》, 和《BBC野生动物》创作文章。他还是一个作曲家和爵士单簧管演奏家,他住在纽约Cold Spring。David Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His work has been profiled on NPR and the BBC, and he has written for The Nation, Sierra, and BBC Wildlife. A composer and jazz clarinetist, he lives in Cold Spring, New York.
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