June Book Club Meeting

Next Book for the BHAS Book Club

For the BHAS Book Club’s next meeting in June, we will be discussing the New York Times Bestseller, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong.

And this time, we will be meeting in person!

Our meeting will be on Tuesday, June 25^th at The ONE Center, 7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, at 6:00 PM. Our meetings typically last about 2 hours. To be notified of more details closer to the meeting date, as well as to be on the list of recipients for our discussion questions, please email Rachel Hudson at lightningdash09@nullyahoo.com .

Here is an excerpt from the publisher regarding Ed Yong’s book: “In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.”

We hope to see you there!