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Life as a bird

By Jamie Condliffe

15 February 2012

EVER wondered what it might be like to be a bird soaring through the skies? You’re not alone.

You need only consider a handful of metaphors – bird-brained, hawk-eyed and pigeon-toed – to see how our feathered friends permeate our thinking and drive our curiosity. So what would an avian existence be like?

In Bird Sense, , a zoologist at the University of Sheffield, UK, attempts to get to the bottom of that question. It’s an impossible dream, of course, but by examining a bird’s basic senses, he manages to provide a real flavour of life from a bird’s-eye view.

“By examining a bird’s basic senses,…

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