Buch
Yong, Ed
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / Ed Yong
London : The Bodley Head, [2022]
Titel / Verantwortliche: An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / Ed Yong
Veröffentlichung: London : The Bodley Head, [2022]
Physische Beschreibung:
x, 449 pages: illustrations
ISBN: 9781847926081
Datum:2022
Sprache:
Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Notiz:
- englisch
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Science & Technology (2022), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2022), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2022), The Listen List for Outstanding Audio Narration (2023)
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Abstract:
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses to encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. 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, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.