Research Catalog

Title

Tuco : the parrot, the others, and a scattershot world : a life with birds / Brian Brett.

Author

Brett, Brian

Publication

Vancouver : Greystone Books, [2015]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xv, 328 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Both a biography of an irreverent African Grey parrot--given to asking "Whaddya know?" and announcing "Party time!"--and an exploration of the history of birds/ dinosaurs, the relationships between humans and birds, our notions of language and intelligence, and our tendency to "other" anything that is different from us, Tuco also describes Brett's own painful experience of being othered as an androgyne. Provocative, profound, hilarious, and moving, Tuco is most of all the extraordinary story of Brett's decades-long relationship with this singular bird, what Brett calls "a story we made together."--

Subject

• Brett, Brian
• African gray parrot > Biography
• Parrots > Behavior
• Human-animal relationships
• African gray parrot

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Good morning -- Buying the bird -- Outsiders together -- The dinosaur bird -- What's the bird -- Birds and us and a blue punk -- Bird watching, bird killing, bird rescuing -- Speke, parrot -- Know that bird -- The other bird -- Time's arrow.

ISBN

• 9781771640633
• 1771640634

OCLC

• 914400259
• SCSB-12461246

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library