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Author Yong, Ed, 1964- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Random House, 2023.
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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - New Materials  590 YON    Check Shelf
Edition 2023 Random House trade paperback edition.
Description x, 449 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: 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.
Subject Senses and sensation.
Animal behavior.
Physiology.
Neurosciences.
ISBN 9780593133255 (paperback)
0593133250 (paperback)
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