The Bird Way: a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think

by Jennifer Ackerman

For one thing, scientists are shedding biases that have blinkered research for generations. Sensory prejudices, for instance—the notion that the world we humans see, hear, and smell is the world experienced by other creatures. In fact, it’s strictly our reality, constrained by our cognitive, biological, even cultural limitations.