Recs if you like Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses...

🦅🦜🦢🐧🦉🦩🐦‍⬛ Books about ✨BIRDS!!!✨ beautiful, strange, silly, magical creatures.

“We have no clear definition of consciousness—even though it must be the most important element of our own experience on the planet.

Why do we fear so much in the other this thing we so little understand in ourselves?”

books that explore and grapple with the nature of human and non-human consciousness (animal, machine, or otherwise alien).

mostly science non-fiction, speculative fiction and literary fiction.

recs very much welcome :)

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

science-y books that highlight different aspects of non-human intelligence, perception, behavior and cognition! mainly highlighting ethology and neurobiology research that i find super cool!

Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.