What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird When the new job goes

When the new job goes up in smoke

a feast of the senses

arrest him

His job is to be the Eyes--to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park's elders

Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions--Candor (the honest)

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird When the new job goesINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charming and eye opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, "one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world" (The New York Times). For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless