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BOOK
Title An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / Ed Yong
Author Yong, Ed
Imprint New York : Random House, [2022]
©2022

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Naturvetenskap och matematik  590 engelska    DUE 24-04-23  ---
Edition First edition
Descript 449 sidor, 32 onumrerade sidor illustrationer
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 Sinnen och förnimmelser
Etologi
Fysiologi
Neurovetenskap
Senses and sensation
Animal behavior
Physiology
Neurosciences
Sensation
Physiology
Neurosciences
Sens et sensations
Physiologie
Neurosciences
Physiology.
Classmark 591.5
Ug.059
ISBN/ISSN 9780593133231 inbunden
9780593133248 (ebok)
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