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020			_a9781847926098
082			_a591.5 YON-E
100			_aYong, ED
245			_aImmense world : _bhow animal senses reveal the hidden reals around us / _cEd Yong
260			_aLondon _bPenguin _c2022
300			_a449p.
500			_aThe 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 a previously unfathomable dimension-the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic fields, and brainless jellyfish that nonetheless have complex eyes. 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, and that even fingernail-sized spiders can make out the craters of the moon. We meet people with unusual senses, from women who can make out extra colors to blind individuals who can navigate using reflected echoes like bats. Yong tells the stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, and also looks ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved
650			_a Senses and sensation.
650			_aAnimal behavior.
650			_aPhysiology.
650			_aNeurosciences.
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