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"An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realm Around Us, by Ed Yong. Goodreads gives the book a 4.49% rating out of 5.

The Arms Library has a few copies; many more are in the CW/MARS system. Be sure to order yours now!

Our next meeting, led by Sebastian LaMontagne, of the Franklin Land Trust, will be held on May 11th at 4 p.m. at the Arms Library in Shelburne Falls.

Light refreshments will be offered.

A bit about the book...

"In An Immense World, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved." - Ed Yong