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A review by leweylibrary
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
slow-paced
4.75
It was really long and absolutely PACKED with information, but it was rarely if ever boring! I felt like a kid again watching The Most Extreme On Animal Planet or watching Amazing Animals with Henry the lizard. ☺️ I'm going to be randomly spouting off animal facts for ages now lol
That being said, this book is not only fascinating but super important. I've often wondered if other people experience things like color the same way that I do, but I haven't wondered that kind of thing nearly as much about the experiences of animals. We're always so busy comparing what we think their experiences must be to ours that we lose a chance to see, really see, the full breadth of how animals sense the world, including in ways that we can't possibly fathom like echolocation and active elctrolocation. I appreciate that the book ended with how important it is that we attempt to appreciate other species' worlds and how they experience them and how detrimental things like light and noise pollution are to those experiences.
That being said, this book is not only fascinating but super important. I've often wondered if other people experience things like color the same way that I do, but I haven't wondered that kind of thing nearly as much about the experiences of animals. We're always so busy comparing what we think their experiences must be to ours that we lose a chance to see, really see, the full breadth of how animals sense the world, including in ways that we can't possibly fathom like echolocation and active elctrolocation. I appreciate that the book ended with how important it is that we attempt to appreciate other species' worlds and how they experience them and how detrimental things like light and noise pollution are to those experiences.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death