CUCKOO: CHEATING BY NATURE
Book ID/图书代码： 02000014B68282
English Summary/英文概要： The cuckoo is Nature’s most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving other species into raising their young. Nick Davies exposes these generally plain-looking birds to be some of the most cunning and inventive creatures in the natural world. Using shrewd detective skills he reveals the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken place in the cuckoos’ long battle to keep on outwitting their hosts. While the hosts are developing better defences, the cuckoo is constantly coming up with novel forms of trickery, and Nick Davies, who has studied cuckoos for three decades, is our guide to unraveling how and why these are taking place.
Beloved as the herald of the European spring, heard but rarely seen, known in folklore as a great cheat, the details of the cuckoo’s life have until now been shrouded in mystery, and this book provides a fascinating insight into the inner workings of these superficially unassuming and ordinary birds.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 布谷鸟是自然界最著名的骗子，通常会欺瞒其它鸟类去抚养自己的幼鸟。尼克•戴维斯展示了这种脸部扁平的鸟类是自然界最具狡黠和创造性的生物。通过使用精妙的调查技巧，作者揭示了布谷鸟长期欺骗寄主的战斗的令人惊讶而有趣的剧本。当寄主有了更高级的防范之后，布谷鸟也会想出小说一般的情节继续行骗，尼克戴维斯研究布谷鸟三十年，将带领我们解开这一切的发生的原因。
因为是欧洲春天的先驱被人所喜爱，常闻其声不见其形，在民间被视作高明的骗子，然而布谷鸟的生活至今仍然不得其真，本书就呈现了这些表面普通平凡的鸟类的有趣生活世界。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 尼克•戴维斯是剑桥大学行为生态学教授，彭布洛克学院教工。他关于布谷鸟的研究已经在BBC 4电台播出，由大卫•阿腾伯格编剧，麦克•博凯德制片，制作了一部影片。他目前的书包括《布谷鸟》，《燕八哥》，《另类欺骗》赢得了鸟类学基金和剑桥大学鸟学报年度推荐。
Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His cuckoo research has been presented on BBC 4 Radio, and as a BBC film, produced by Mike Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough. His previous books include Cuckoos, Cowbirds and other Cheats that won Best Book of the Year from the British Trust for Ornithology and British Birds Magazine.
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