It’s official:

MEET THE NEIGHBORS has hatched!

It’s about the science of animal intelligence, how we think about nature, and what it means to understand wild animals as fellow persons.

Available now at your favorite bookseller.

🐝🐢🦝🐸🦆🐟

#science #animals #conservation #nature #animalrights #newbooks

To accompany the book I’ll be publishing chapter supplements—outtakes, interviews, further readings, and commentaries—in my newsletter.

https://www.brandonkeim.substack.com/

(If that’s not enough reason to sign up, there will also be giveaways! Sadly the first of these, involving apple seedlings grown from seeds in fox scat, was derailed by chipmunks who dug them up. Future giveaways will be chipmunk-proof.)

Gratitude to Mattias Lanas, the illustrator who made the wonderful drawings in MEET THE NEIGHBORS. They’re my homage to the mid-century nature and animal books I loved when I was young.

https://www.mattiaslanas.com/

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Thank you to Jill Marsal, my agent; Jessica Yao, my editor; Quynh Do, who acquired MtN for W. W. Norton; publicity mavens Erin Lovett and Steve Colca; creative director Steve Attardo, cover director Derek Thornton, cover designer Jennifer Heuer, and book designer Chrissy Kurpeski; and so many more.
@9brandon It’s rare to see authors publicly thank the many members of the vast team it takes to produce a book.
@Michael_Sims_writer Wish I'd included the copy editor, too! Can't find her name and she deserves a lot of credit :)
@9brandon yes. Essential and often wonderful. Then there was the one who kept changing my reference to Darwin’s Descent of Man to ASCENT of Man, it turned out because she had recently seen the old Bronowski book.