Should nature study replace school? The BBC’s Bird Photographer of the Year awards shows the lessons that nature can teach us. Some even say it can teach us all we need to know.
Birds teach the meaning of love says expert
Should nature study replace school? The BBC's Bird Photographer of the Year awards shows the lessons that nature can teach us. Some even say it can teach us all we need to know.
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They are birds. But they are all too human. Levi Fitze's photograph of King penguins shows a yellow-necked adult standing tall as its fluffy child asks for food. The adult seems bored.
Fitze is one of the medallists in the Bird Photographer of the Year.1 It was not an easy competition to win. The winner was Jack Zhi's picture of a peregrine falcon taking on a much larger pelican.
Some think that we can learn a lot from animals and plants. One of them is bird expertSomeone who knows a lot about a particular subject. Noah Strycker.
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Strycker has seen more birds than almost anyone else. He explores how American nutcrackers bury seeds for the winter in thousands of tiny holes. He looks at the Australian fairy-wrens, who look after each other's children as one big family.
It seems there are few things birds cannot teach us. Who needs school when we can learn from nature?
Should nature study replace school?
Yes! Nature tells us how to find food, how to build shelter and how to treat others. If we followed nature, the world would be a better place!
No! Of course not! Nature cannot teach us how to read or how to do maths. And some parts of nature are not very nice at all!
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Birds teach the meaning of love says expert
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Expert - Someone who knows a lot about a particular subject.