The amazing sensors of the animal kingdom

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 14 December 2022
An Immense World book cover

An Immense World book cover Photo: penguinrandomhouse.com

We can never follow magnetic fields like birds and sea turtles do to find their way to a destination. We can't see the infrared radiation of a person or predator, like rattlesnakes do, or feel the air currents of a fly like a spider. Nature's magnificence is all around us, says Pulitzer Prize winning science writer Ed Yong. Animals sense the world in ways that are wonderous and humbling. Yong explores the diverse ways animals perceive the world and shows us the limits of our  perception in his new book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us