This was so ridiculously beautiful. Leaving aside that Yong is an incredibly gifted writer who has a deep sense of how to make everything interesting and this stuff is already interesting!
The way he tells this story and his focus on the umwelten of animals rather than on what they can do for us makes it an amazing book to get lost in.
I realize this is a weird sentence, but it was the perfect book to finish on Rosh Chodesh to appreciate .ברכי נפשי