{"product_id":"9780547198484","title":"The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration","description":"\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeinrich 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 (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), 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":"Default Title","offer_id":47012426350832,"sku":"9780547198484","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547198484_p0.jpg?v=1763715293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547198484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}