An immense world. How animals feel the reality hidden from us
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An immense world. How animals feel the reality hidden from us
19.99 €
Our planet is filled with countless tastes and sounds, textures and smells, hues and vibrations, electric and magnetic fields, but every animal, including humans, is enclosed from birth to death inside its own special sensory bubble - or, as scientists say, umwelt - perceiving only a fraction of our vast world with all its senses.
In his book The Immense World, Yong takes us beyond our umwelt and tries to imagine with us what it would be like to feel the echo of a fluttering butterfly, the electrical charge of a flower, or the hydrodynamic trace of a long-swimming herring. We will follow in the footsteps of fire-seeking beetles, turtles navigating the Earth's magnetic field, and African fish filling the water with electrical signals. We'll look at the world through the four pairs of eyes of a jumping spider, listen to the vibrations of tiny bugs, and discover that a crocodile's snout is as sensitive as a surgeon's fingers. We will get acquainted with the latest discoveries in the field of sensory zoology, understand what threatens the animal world sound and light pollution, and find out what the dog at the nearest pole is interested in. Marcel Proust once wrote that "the only true journey is not to travel to new landscapes, but to possess other eyes." Ed Yong's book gives readers a unique opportunity to travel in just that way.
In his book The Immense World, Yong takes us beyond our umwelt and tries to imagine with us what it would be like to feel the echo of a fluttering butterfly, the electrical charge of a flower, or the hydrodynamic trace of a long-swimming herring. We will follow in the footsteps of fire-seeking beetles, turtles navigating the Earth's magnetic field, and African fish filling the water with electrical signals. We'll look at the world through the four pairs of eyes of a jumping spider, listen to the vibrations of tiny bugs, and discover that a crocodile's snout is as sensitive as a surgeon's fingers. We will get acquainted with the latest discoveries in the field of sensory zoology, understand what threatens the animal world sound and light pollution, and find out what the dog at the nearest pole is interested in. Marcel Proust once wrote that "the only true journey is not to travel to new landscapes, but to possess other eyes." Ed Yong's book gives readers a unique opportunity to travel in just that way.
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