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An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us

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"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 withunusual 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"--

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Bedford Free Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31002150877446
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Bedford Hills Free Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31003151629216
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Briarcliff Manor Public Library 591.5 YONG (Text)
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31036150998000
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Bronxville Public Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31004151844078
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Chappaqua Library 591.5 YONG (Text)
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31005600113841
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Croton Free Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31006151893559
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Dobbs Ferry Public Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31007151428453
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Eastchester Public Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31008152566424
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Greenburgh Public Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31009154922292
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Harrison Public Library 591.5 Y (Text)
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31010300289289
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24513. ‡aAn immense world : ‡bhow animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / ‡cEd Yong.
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bRandom House, ‡c2022.
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520 . ‡a"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 withunusual 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"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
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