The immense world: how animals feel reality hidden from us. Yong E.

Our planet is full of countless tastes and sounds, textures and smells, shades and vibrations, electric and magnetic fields, but any animal, including humans, is made from birth to death inside its special sensory bubble - or, as scientists say, “Muvelta,” - perceiving only the small fraction of our immense world by all the senses.

In his book the vast world, scientific journalist Ed Yong takes us abroad of our Muvelt and is trying to imagine how to feel an echoing butterfly. , an electric charge of a flower or a hydrodynamic trace of a long -swimming herring. We will get acquainted with the most recent discoveries in the field of sensory zoology, understand what threatens the animal world with sound and light pollution of the environment, and find out what our dog is interested in the nearest pillar.

Marseille Prust once wrote that “The only true journey is not a journey to new landscapes, but possessing different eyes.” Eda Yong's book gives its readers a practically unique opportunity to travel in this way.