Introduction: Trees of Life Part I. Dynamics Organized Chaos Makes the Beauty of a Butterfly Chickadees, Mutations, and the Thermodynamics of Life The Photosynthetic Salamander Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase "Parallel Universe" of Life Described Far beneath the Bottom of the Sea At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules for Evolution A Mud-Loving, Iron-Lunged, Jelly-Eating Ecosystem Savior Redeeming the Lamprey Decoding Nature's Soundtrack Part II. Inner Lives Being a Sandpiper Monogamy Helps Geese Reduce Stress What Pigeons Teach Us about Love Chimps and the Zen of Falling Water How City Living Is Reshaping the Brains and Behavior of Urban Animals Reconsider the Rat: The New Science of a Reviled Rodent Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Questions The New Anthropomorphism Honeybees Might Have Emotions Part III. Intersections A Day in the Life of NYC's Hospital for Wild Birds New Yorkers in Uproar over Planned Mass Killing of Swans An Eel Swims in the Bronx On Waldman's Pond The Return of the River A Chimp's Day in Court: Inside the Historic Demand for Nonhuman Rights Chimpanzee Rights Get a Day in Court Medical Experimentation on Chimps Is Nearing an End. But What about Monkeys? I, Cockroach Part IV. Ethics The Improbable Bee The Ethics of Urban Beekeeping The Wild, Secret Life of New York City Earth Is Not a Garden Add a Few Species. Pull Down the Fences. Step Back. Feral Cats vs. Conservation: A Truce Should Animals Have a Right to Privacy? When Climate Change Blinds Us To Bring Back Extinct Species, We'll Need to Change Our Own September 11, Fall Migration, and Occupy Wall Street Making Sense of 7 Billion People
Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, WIRED, National Geographic News, Aeon, Nautilus, Scientific American Mind, The Guardian, Audubon Magazine, Grist, Mother Jones, Conservation, NOVA, and Anthropocene.
"The frontier of writing about animals is the attempt to go deeper from the species to the individuals, their lives as they live them. The Eye of the Sandpiper makes that penetration a journey, so that it begins more generally and proceeds to narrow its focus, then steps back and displays to us the big picture. I wanted to speed through this book, but I kept slowing down because it was too engaging to rush. The knowledgeable Brandon Keim is as much a thinker as he is a reporter."-Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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