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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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Humans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with biological vision as we currently understand it. They have evolved to track movement with an acuity no other species can match by processing raw information; they may not 'see', in the human sense, at all.
Marine molluscs called chitons have eyes that are made of stone. Scorpions appear to see with their entire bodies. It isn't only vision that differs from species to species—some animals also have senses we lack entirely. Knifefish navigate by electrical charge.
An Immense World will take us on an insider's tour of the natural world by describing the biology, physics and chemistry animals use to perceive it. We may lack some of their senses, but our own super-sense lies in our ability to understand theirs. And in the face of the largest extinction event since the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, our only hope of saving other species is bound up with our ability to see what they see, and feel what they feel.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-23
Out of the world... Must read
The book is amazing, right from the title which is intriguing and made me explore into the book and with every chapter passing fell in love with the book. The way animals adapt and use their senses in this world is just amazing and so much to learn for humans from them who fail to understand this world even with higher thinking capacity than any species in this world. We humans should understand that a better world is possible only when you try to go hand in hand with nature and not go for greed. Will forever be grateful for the author for this excellent work 🙇♂️🙇♂️🙏🙏🙏
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- Rajesh Nathani
- 10-03-23
Excellent! A reading must
All humans especially policy makers must read this. We need to change, NOW! rather than later.
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- sunil ranade
- 04-01-23
Excellent insights into an unknown world
The book manages to delve deep into the various sensory perceptions of different classes of animals, birds, insects, mammals etc.
Provided fantastic and unimaginable insights, bringing some obvious concepts and some unknown, to the reader / listener.
Extremely well compiled, narrated and is a worthy collectible…
Well done Ed..
Sunil Ranade
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- 13-01-24
Hidden richness of nature around us
Must read/listen for anyone who likes the natural world. Ed Yong is no Attenborough but he’s pretty good at the voiceover and obviously a very gifted nature writer
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- lizbeautytips
- 22-09-23
An eye-opening book
Personally, the book helped me to expand my sensory horizon to appreciate that of all species on earth.
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- Rincewind
- 28-08-23
On the star system, this book gets a Constellation
It's like the entire Planet Earth series and so much more in audio form. Makes you realize the narrow viewpoint of our limited senses.
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