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  Title

  An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us First edition.

  Author

  Yong, Ed,  

  Publisher:

  Random House,

  Pub date:

  [2022]

  Pages:

  x, 449 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  9780593133231

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult nonfiction shelves.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9780593133231
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    591.5 YON	1	Adult non-fic hardcover	Adult nonfiction shelves

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  An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us First edition.
  Yong, Ed,
  

  Personal Author:

  Yong, Ed,

  Title:

  An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / Ed Yong.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  x, 449 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 25 cm

  Contents:

  The only true voyage -- Leaking sacks of chemicals : smells and tastes -- Endless ways of seeing : light -- Rurple, grurple, yurple : color -- The unwanted sense : pain -- So cool : heat -- A rough sense : contact and flow -- The rippling ground : surface vibrations -- All ears : sound -- A silent world shouts back : echoes -- Living batteries : electric fields -- They know the way : magnetic fields -- Every window at once : uniting the senses -- Save the quiet, preserve the dark : threatened sensescapes.

  Summary:

  "The 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"-- Provided by publisher.

  Subject term:

  Senses and sensation.

  Subject term:

  Animal behavior.

  Subject term:

  Physiology.

  Subject term:

  Neurosciences.

  Subject term:

  Sensation

  Subject term:

  Physiology

  Subject term:

  Neurosciences

  Subject term:

  Sens et sensations.

  Subject term:

  Physiologie.

  Subject term:

  Neurosciences.

  Subject term:

  physiology.

  Subject term:

  Animal behavior. (OCoLC)fst00809079

  Subject term:

  Neurosciences. (OCoLC)fst01036509

  Subject term:

  Physiology. (OCoLC)fst01063177

  Subject term:

  Senses and sensation. (OCoLC)fst01112562