
Their Fate Is Our Fate
How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World
- 257 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
At the heart of this book by Nobel Prizeâwinning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the worldâfrom tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier ReefâDoherty illuminates birds' role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our own well-being.Their Fate Is Our Fate is an impassioned call not only to attention but to action. As "citizen scientists" we can collect data, vital to cutting-edge research, that depends on the birds that are all around us. Armed with our observations, scientists will continue to uncover new ways to glimpse our future in birdsâand to affirm how, truly, their fate is our fate.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also by Peter Doherty
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Searching for puffins: An introduction
- 2. Distant relatives
- 3. Chick embryos and other developing life forms
- 4. Sentinel chickens
- 5. Falling crows
- 6. Ticks, sheep, grouse and the glorious twelfth
- 7. Flu flies
- 8. Bird flu: From Hong Kong to Qinghai Lake and beyond
- 9. Bird flu guys
- 10. Bug detectives
- 11. Hawaiian wipeout
- 12. The great parrot panic of 1929â30
- 13. Catching cancer
- 14. Blue bloods and chicken bugs
- 15. Killing the vultures
- 16. Heavy metal
- 17. Red knots and crab eggs
- 18. Hot birds
- 19. For the birds, and for us
- Notes
- Latin binomials for common bird names
- Abbreviations
- Further reading and references
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Photo credits
- About the author