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A review by jdscott50
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
5.0
Umwelt is a way to describe what we can perceive around us. Humans can see rays of light, trees swaying in the breeze, and a rabbit running under a brush, but how does each animal or insect sense? Ed Yong explores these concepts in his new book An Immense World.
Yong starts his book with a human observing a chain reaction of events. But so much that happens cannot be viewed by a human. Mammals and ants can see more colors and spectrums, giving them extra abilities to survive or stalk their prey. A scientist accidentally discovers ultraviolet rays when ants avoid an invisible spectrum of color from a prism. The color, a sort of Yerple, cannot be seen by humans but by almost every other mammal. There are countless examples of these amazing natural occurrences in this book.
Yong starts his book with a human observing a chain reaction of events. But so much that happens cannot be viewed by a human. Mammals and ants can see more colors and spectrums, giving them extra abilities to survive or stalk their prey. A scientist accidentally discovers ultraviolet rays when ants avoid an invisible spectrum of color from a prism. The color, a sort of Yerple, cannot be seen by humans but by almost every other mammal. There are countless examples of these amazing natural occurrences in this book.