An Immense World : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on a “thrilling tour of nonhuman perception" (The New York Times) to experience how other animals percieve the elecetromagnetic waves, skeins of scent, and pulses of pressure, that surround us.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, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that 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 inaud