An Immense World : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will
transform the way you perceive the world - from Pulitzer
prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain
Multitudes. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and
vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But
every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble,
perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book
welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as
it is truly perceived by other animals. 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 humans
that 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 which lie unsolved. In An
Immense World, author and acclaimed science journalist 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. Because in order to understand our
world we don't need to travel to other places, we need to see
through other eyes.
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