A waking of Rooks

A Waking of Rooks. By Gordon Parker. Adult. An amazing 'rites of passage' novel that is unique in its leondumoulin.nl Ridgley is in a mental.
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When given stones and a tube full of water with a reward floating, they not only understood that they needed to use the stones but also what is the best stone to use. In one set of experiments, rooks managed to knock a reward off a platform by rolling a stone down a tube toward the base of the platform. Rooks also seemed to understand the idea that a heavier stone will roll quicker and be more likely to knock the platform over. In this same test, rooks showed they understood to pick a stone that was in a shape that rolled easily.

Rooks also show the ability to work together to receive a reward. In order to receive a reward, multiple rooks had to pull strings along the lid of a box in order for it to move and them to reach the reward.

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Rooks seem to have no preference regarding working as a group comparative to working singularly. They also seem to have a notion of gravity, comparable to a six-month-old baby and exceeding the abilities of chimpanzees. Rookeries were often perceived as nuisances in rural Britain, and it was previously the practice to hold rook shoots where the juvenile birds, known as "branchers", were shot before they were able to fly.

These events were both very social and a source of food the rook becomes inedible once mature as the rook and rabbit pie was considered a great delicacy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Gordon Parker was born in Newcastle on Tyne and except for a spell as an engineer in the merchant navy, has spent all of his life in the North East of England. Educated at Blyth Grammar school and Newcastle Polytechnic, Gordon started writing short stories and plays for local radio before writing his first novel, "The Darkness of the Morning" which was an immediate best seller and based on factual Gordon Parker was born in Newcastle on Tyne and except for a spell as an engineer in the merchant navy, has spent all of his life in the North East of England.

Educated at Blyth Grammar school and Newcastle Polytechnic, Gordon started writing short stories and plays for local radio before writing his first novel, "The Darkness of the Morning" which was an immediate best seller and based on factual events in and around the local mining community in the 19th century. It was translated into Dutch,Russian, Bulgarian and Japanese and was serialized in a Russian magazine as well as appearing as an English reader in Russian schools.

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He took another factual event as the basis for his second novel, "Lightning in May" which involved the derailing of the "Flying Scotsman" during the general strike of Again, factual happenings involving corruption in local government in the 's produced a semi satirical novel titled "ThePool" Using factual events to spark off fictional happenings proved a popular genre and a further novel, based on a second world war American shipwreck was completed.

The 'Richard Mongomery' is still in the Thames estuary and contains over tons of high explosives. The novel titled "The Action of the Tiger" hit the bookstalls and was shortlisted for a hollywood movie. Being a great trad jazz enthusiast, writing novels took second place to playing a clarinet which he bought on the spur of the moment expecting to sell it after 3 months if his standard wasn't as good as Benny Goodman. His latest novel "A waking of Rooks" has been likened to "Catcher in the Rye".


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