An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong
Rating: 3.0 / 5 · Read · Finished 2022-10-02
A tour of the many sense in the animal kingdom. A cool concept. In reality, it’s mostly long lists of examples of animals using cool senses in cool ways. I got lots of fun facts, but didn’t feel like I took away anything unifying. Here’s my biggest takeaways:
- Every animal doesn’t know what it’s missing
- Classifying senses is more fuzzy than you think. There are probably senses we don’t even know about.
- To know if a sense is good or bad, you need to know what the animal uses it for
- Animals never rely on a single sense. They piece together every scrap of information they can get.