{"product_id":"the-homing-instinct-meaning-and-mystery-in-animal-migration-9780007595853","title":"The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bernd Heinrich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing? Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark marvelous, mind-altering prose (Los Angeles Times), he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birds--and reminds us that to discount our own emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890501075095,"sku":"9780007595853","price":1186.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780007595853.webp?v=1781180271","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-homing-instinct-meaning-and-mystery-in-animal-migration-9780007595853","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}