The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship by Burger, Joanna

The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375760259)

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Format: Paperback
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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship by Burger, Joanna

The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship

$19.00
The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship by Burger, Joanna

The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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Seventeen years ago, when she adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-year-old parrot named Tiko, the internationally renowned ornithologist Joanna Burger entered one of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen and hostile when he entered Dr. Burger's home, Tiko gradually warmed up, courting her during mating season, nursing her vigilantly through a bout with Lyme disease, and for a while even fighting her husband for her attentions. In time theirs was a relationship of deep mutual trust.

The Parrot Who Owns Me is Joanna and Tiko's story, as well as the story of the science of birds, and of parrots in particular. Woven into the narrative are insights and fascinating revelations from Dr. Burger's work--not only about parrots, but also about what it means to be human.

Author: Joanna Burger
ISBN-10: 0375760253
ISBN-13: 9780375760259
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2002
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.26h x 5.57w x 0.53d
By Joanna Burger
By Joanna Burger
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Joanna Burger, a distinguished professor of Biology at Rutgers, has authored two academic books on bird behavior, and has written five books for lay readers, two of which she co-authored with her husband, Muchal Gochfeld, a professor of environmental and community medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. They live in Somerset, New Jersey.

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