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41 " hummingbirds "
― Jennifer Ackerman , The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
42 " In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found that pecking orders are ladderlike, with the top rung conferring great privilege in the form of food and safety, and the bottom rung fraught with vulnerability and risk. "
― Jennifer Ackerman , The Genius of Birds
43 " New research shows that when we recall an event, the place cells in our hippocampus that store the location of that event fire again, helping us to locate a memory in both space and time. This explains why retracing your steps can help you remember what you were looking for. "
44 " Words will do that. We are a naming species, and what we call things influences the way we think about them and the experiments we deem worthy of doing. "
