Here are some recently published books: Ed Yong,
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
; Philip Ball,
The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
; Justin Gregg,
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
; and James Bridle,
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
. I could go on—we could add that new book I cited a couple of weeks ago,
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
, by David M. Peña-Guzmán, not to mention Seirian Sumner’s
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
—but you get the drift. You can learn a lot from these books even if you are (as I am) an unrepentant believer in what gets called, deprecatingly, “human exceptionalism.”