An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Ed Yong
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Ed Yong
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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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- Tiit Pähn
- 24-08-2023
Absolutely mindblowing
Describes the richness of life and gives countless new perspectives on the same environment we all exist in. Umwelt
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- Anonymous User
- 26-06-2023
This book will expand your world
Ed Yong’s performance and writing is incredible. In an incredibly easy to digest way, he let’s you see, hear, touch, smell, vibrate, echolocate, and electrolocate around the animal kingdom. He expands your world that’s just around you, sharpening your senses, learning about senses that you don’t have, and understanding just what’s at stake in our immense world.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-08-2023
Will alter your perception of the world around you
I could not recommend this book more highly. Allows you to step into different animal's shoes, viewing the world as they would.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2023
Brilliant
I loved this book from start to finish. Thank you Ed Young for giving me a greater understanding of how truly wonderful life on Earth is.
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- Mr Jacob Carlyle
- 31-01-2024
I book we should all listen to, and try to understand.
Well written and well narrated. Complex ideas explain simply.
Goose, a greater appreciation to our animal kingdom neighbours. 
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- Hammie
- 29-04-2023
Very interesting
Very interesting, easily digestible and well organised. The author did fairly well reading his own work but it could have benefited from a professional narrator: I repeatedly “zoned out” due to the narration but the book itself is excellent.
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- Ian P Vanin
- 16-09-2023
Amazing!
Amazing, thought provoking and powerful book that everyone should read to understand that how "we" see the world is not comprehensive, or even realistic of reality.
This book will have you questioning your senses, their limitations, and your picture of the world, while increasing empathy for the many incredible species humans are impacting through their occupation of the planet.
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- Justin
- 25-09-2022
I have a new favourite book.
For around 15 years I have been working with humans and non-human animals with varying sense perceptions. In an Immense World, Ed Yong, brings together years of research and lived experience to share the sense perceptions of the humanimals with which we share this immense world.
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- kim bruce
- 19-03-2023
Life changing….I’ll never look at the world the same way
A in-depth and entertaining book
I admit I will have to listen to it twice just to fully absorb it.
Ears on butterfly’s wings! Who knew
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-10-2022
fantastic
This book is packed with information and is entertaining to boot. Makes me more interested in the world around me. Everyone should listen to this.
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