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Also by Sy Montgomery:

What the Chicken Knows, November 2024
e-Book
Birdology, April 2010
Hardcover
Quest for the Tree Kangaroos, November 2007
Hardcover
The Good Good Pig, April 2007
Paperback
The Good Good Pig, May 2006
Hardcover

What the Chicken Knows
Sy Montgomery

A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

Atria Books
November 2024
On Sale: November 5, 2024
ISBN: 1668047365
EAN: 9781668047361
Kindle: B0CV2CYKLV
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Non-Fiction Pet-Lover

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless or cautious) and connects with Sy in her own way.

In this short, delightful book, Sy takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck; relationships are important to them and the average chicken can recognize more than one hundred other chickens; they remember the past and anticipate the future; and they communicate specific information through at least twenty-four distinct calls. Visitors to her home are astonished by all this, but for Sy what’s more astonishing is how little most people know about chickens, especially considering there are about twenty percent more chickens on earth than people.

With a winning combination of personal narrative and science, What the Chicken Knows is exactly the kind of book that has made Sy Montgomery such a beloved and popular author.

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