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

Label
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Title
An immense world
Title remainder
how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Statement of responsibility
Ed Yong
Title variation
How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
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"--
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Yong, Ed
Dewey number
591.5
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
QP431
LC item number
.Y68 2022
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Senses and sensation
  • Animal behavior
  • Physiology
  • Neurosciences
Target audience
adult
Label
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us, Ed Yong
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-429) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
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
Control code
on1277281449
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 449 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780593133231
Lccn
2021046048
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40031214019
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1277281449
Label
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us, Ed Yong
Publication
Note
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-429) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
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
Control code
on1277281449
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 449 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780593133231
Lccn
2021046048
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40031214019
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1277281449

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