Jennifer Ackerman

The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

Birdbrain is a slur for which we should apologize to our feathered friends. Ackerman goes out with the researchers doing the work and lays out what birds actually pull off. New Caledonian crows manufacture hooked tools out of twigs and…

What an Owl Knows

Jennifer Ackerman

Owls are hard to study — night, silence, no interest in being watched — so most of what people believed about them was folklore. Ackerman goes out with the researchers finally cracking it. Feathers with a comb on the leading…