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Great Mute Swans: Habitat, Behavior, Faith, and Family--A Photographic Narrative

Great Mute Swans: Habitat, Behavior, Faith, and Family--A Photographic Narrative

Xu, Gang

Hardcover

Bilingual EducationBirdsGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 1736519301
ISBN13: 9781736519301
Publisher: Dr. Gang Xu Dogwood Tree Studio
Published: Feb 5 2021
Pages: 268
Weight: 2.53
Height: 0.81 Width: 11.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

How did the Chinese character Xi, also a prominent family name in China, originate? The mute swan might very well hold the answer to the question. In 2014, the author, a former Harvard fellow, was stunned to come across a scene in which two mute swan parents disciplined and trained one of their three children, which precisely captured the original meaning of the character Xi. His curiosity about the bird as an intelligent animal species was finally given an opportunity to flourish five years later, when more than two dozen mute swans wintered in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in the west periphery of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. He soon discovered that mute swans have evolved a practice that can only be characterized as a religion or faith, indicating that religion or faith is not an experience unique to humans. His observations suggest that the bird has formed a primitive civilization with significant social structure.

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