The majority of animals that can see color can see ultra violet, and we are the exceptions. But as we don't see it, we assumed that it was special and that it was rare. It just took a long time, like pushing back the boundaries of our knowledge of other animals to realize that actually this skill is very common. And i guess that permeates through your book as well, these discoveries that allowed things to happen.
In the first episode of our new series Nature hits the books, science journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about his new book An Immense World, which takes a journey through the weird and wonderful realm of animal senses.
In the show, we chat about how our human-centric view of the world has restricted researchers' understanding of animal senses, how to conceptualise what it might be like to be an electric-field sensitive fish, and what bees might make of us blushing...
An Immense World, Ed Yong, Random House (2022)
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