What the Chicken Knows - Sy Montgomery

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird explores the surprising intelligence, complex social lives, and individual personalities of chickens, challenging common perceptions of them as simple farm animals. Drawing on her two decades of experience with her own flock, Montgomery combines personal narrative with scientific facts to reveal that chickens can recognize over 100 other chickens, communicate with at least 24 distinct calls, remember the past, and anticipate the future. The book highlights their remarkable abilities, such as walking and pecking hours after hatching, and argues for a new appreciation of this familiar bird.

After soaking in the potential apocalypse of AI in April let’s step back in May and appreciate the natural and human history of our underappreciated companion of the last few thousand years 😎. Finish the book, don’t finish the book, love it, or hate it…just come along for a lively discussion 👏.