The Vast World: How Animals Sense a Reality Hidden from Us
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The Vast World: How Animals Sense a Reality Hidden from Us
19.99 €
Our planet is filled with countless tastes and sounds, textures and smells, colors and vibrations, electric and magnetic fields, but every animal, including humans, is trapped from birth to death within its own sensory bubble – or, as scientists call it, umwelt – perceiving only a small part of our vast world with all its senses.
In his book, The Vast World, Jong takes us beyond our umwelt and tries to imagine with us what it is like to feel the echo of a fluttering butterfly, the electric charge of a flower, or the hydrodynamic wake of a long-gone herring. We will follow in the footsteps of beetles searching for fires, turtles navigating by the Earth’s magnetic field, and African fish filling the water with electric signals. We'll look at the world through four pairs of eyes of a jumping spider, listen to the vibrations of tiny bugs, and find out that a crocodile's snout is as sensitive as a surgeon's fingers. We'll learn about the latest discoveries in sensory zoology, understand the threat that sound and light pollution poses to the animal kingdom, and find out what interests the dog at the nearest pole.
Marcel Proust once wrote that "the only real journey is not to new landscapes, but to have new eyes." Ed Yong's book gives readers a unique opportunity to travel in just such a way.
In his book, The Vast World, Jong takes us beyond our umwelt and tries to imagine with us what it is like to feel the echo of a fluttering butterfly, the electric charge of a flower, or the hydrodynamic wake of a long-gone herring. We will follow in the footsteps of beetles searching for fires, turtles navigating by the Earth’s magnetic field, and African fish filling the water with electric signals. We'll look at the world through four pairs of eyes of a jumping spider, listen to the vibrations of tiny bugs, and find out that a crocodile's snout is as sensitive as a surgeon's fingers. We'll learn about the latest discoveries in sensory zoology, understand the threat that sound and light pollution poses to the animal kingdom, and find out what interests the dog at the nearest pole.
Marcel Proust once wrote that "the only real journey is not to new landscapes, but to have new eyes." Ed Yong's book gives readers a unique opportunity to travel in just such a way.
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