I recently read Ed Yong's book "An Immense World" about animal perception and it has a chapter with a lot of beautifully detailed descriptions of how important the sense of smell is to dogs, and how not letting dogs sniff around when they're outside is basically sensory deprivation for them. Welp, ever since then it takes me forever to walk our dogs since I don't want to deprive them of their opportunity to explore and follow whatever scent trails they're sniffing. When I come home from taking an hour just to walk them around the block my wife will joke "Curse you Ed Yong!"
How about you? Any books that had a funny or surprising effect on you?
by ibkeepr