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Author Yong, Ed, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2022]
©2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  591.5 YONG    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  591.5 YONG    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  591.5 YON    DUE 04-05-24
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  591.5 YONG    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  591.5 YONG    DUE 04-08-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  591.5 YONG    DUE 04-08-24
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  591.5 YONG, ED    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  591.5 YON    DUE 04-11-24
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  591.5 YON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  591.5 YON    Check Shelf

Description x, 449 pages, [32] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-429) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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 Senses and sensation.
Animal behavior.
Physiology.
Neurosciences.
Sensation (DNLM)D012677
Physiology (DNLM)D010827
Neurosciences (DNLM)D009488
physiology. (CStmoGRI)aat300054471
Animal behavior. (OCoLC)fst00809079
Neurosciences. (OCoLC)fst01036509
Physiology. (OCoLC)fst01063177
Senses and sensation. (OCoLC)fst01112562
Other Form: Online version: Yong, Ed. Immense world New York : Random House, 2022 9780593133248 (DLC) 2021046049
ISBN 9780593133231 (hardcover)
0593133234 (hardcover)
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