Reading list recommendations- the books of IOB author Mark E. Hauber

Mark’s image from https://www.cowbirdlab.org/

At IOB we like to celebrate previous author’s books as well as their publications with us. We were elated to find out that Mark Hauber, co author of

Inter-Individual Variation in Anti-Parasitic Egg Rejection Behavior: A Test of the Maternal Investment Hypothesis ( https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaa014 , )

M E Hauber,(https://www.cowbirdlab.org/)

has this book out by Chicago University Press

We checked in with Hauber so he could tell us a bit about this recent publication.

Mark, can you tell us a bit about why you wanted to condense the book into a 24 hour time period?

Most bird researchers are morning people. But I had students work in the afternoons on brood parasitic birds and at night on owls. There’s a bird for every hour of the day, it seems.

What were the hardships of condensing the information into a day? Choosing 24 species only. I have way too many ‘favorite birds’.

Looking back now, are there things you wish you could have fit into the book that ended up on the cutting room floor, so to speak?

I wish the night was longer. There are so many special adaptations of nocturnal birds to write about.

Tell us a bit about your next book or project: Recognition Systems: from Molecules to Societies!

In closing, can you detail for us a bit about a day in the life of a scientist? (your 24 hours)

A Hauber Day, if you will: bagel, work, pickleball.