Life teems all around us, from annoying mosquito stings to the soothing sounds of songbirds to the wet nose of your family dog. As most of us gaze out on the world, we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and sense a whole variety of stimuli.
Oftentimes, we may assume that the creatures we inhabit the world with experience it in similar ways.
Pulitzer prize-winning science writer Ed Yong is about to change all that in his latest narrative, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”
Relying heavily on the work of Baltic German biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) who worked in the fields of muscular physiology and animal behavior studies and coined the term “umwelt,” meaning environment or surroundings, Yong takes readers on a deep dive exploring the worlds of a variety of creatures….