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Title: Science journalist Ed Yong on how animals sense the world
Originally reported on www.mprnews.org by MPR News
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“An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us” by Ed Yong.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
All animals use their senses to perceive the world, humans included. But not every animal senses the same thing. In Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong’s new book, he explores the way each species sees the world through its own sensory viewpoint and explains why that should both delight and humble us.
“Senses always come at a cost,” Yong writes. “No animal can sense everything well.”
In “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us,” Yong invites us to break out of our human sensory bubbles to consider the unique ways that dogs, dolphins, spiders, bats, octopus and countless other animals experience their surroundings.
Join Yong and MPR News host Kerri Miller this Friday for stories about why jumping spiders have eight eyes, how octopus arms operate without the brain, why Morpho butterflies have ears on their wings — and why we should gently resist the tendency to view other animals’ senses through the limited view of our own.
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