Sensory pollution is a relatively easy thing to fix, if we had the society and political will to do so. Noise pollution does something similar ina noise in otherwise pristine wild areas push animals out of habithats they need. Light and sound actually have quite substantial effects on the lot of the species around us. And that's what the final chapter of the book is about. Like we, this em this ability to dstand the umvalt of another creature, is a very human thing. It seems to me likely that we're the only species on earth that capable of doing that. We i might not ever know what it is like to be about but at least i can
What do bees sense in flowers? What do songbirds hear in each others’ tunes? And what’s that smell sending your dog running up the street? These questions and many more are the basis of science communicator Ed Yong's book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic magazine and his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He's also the recipient of the George Polk Award for Science Reporting and the author of I Contain Multitudes, his previous book, which became a bestseller. Speaking with Ed on the podcast is Chrissie Giles, Global Health Editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London.
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