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A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!★ “An insightful and informative look at the animal kingdom with high appeal for lovers of nature and science.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review★ “Accessible and enjoyable….further encourage[s] readers to think about senses and animals in new ways.” —Booklist, starred review★ “Intriguing and thought-provoking….A fascinating tour through the world of animal senses, this will be popular with animal lovers and collectors of weird-but-true nature facts.” —School Library Journal, starred review”[A] highly digestible, wonderfully captivating read for a broad age range.” —The Bulletin

Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who until recently was a staff writer at The Atlantic. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and more. He talked about mind-controlling parasites at the TED2014 conference, and his talk has been viewed more than 1.4 million times. He is the winner of the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences, the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award, a National Academies Keck Science Communication Award and awards from the Association of British Science Writers for Best Science Blog and Best Communication of Science in a Non-Science Context.