Crowing About Culture

摘要

If asked the animal with which we share the most in common, we might be forgiven for naming one of the great apes. At first glance, our close evolutionary relationship with nonhuman primates would appear to make them the obvious choice. But John Marzluff and Tony Angell beg to differ. Fervent enthusiasts of all things corvid, they argue that "to know the crow is to know ourselves." Their In the Company of Crows and Ravens offers a general audience intriguing and inspiring insights into the dynamic relationship that has long persisted between corvids and humans.