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Weird Factors That Distort Your Thinking & How Animals Perceive the World

Something You Should Know

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The Great Gray Owl - Aspects of Hearing

The great gray owl can hear a mouse oa vole underneath the mound of snow. This is an aspect of hearing that i was fascinated by, this idea that sound creates a landscape around us. A john hull wrote a wonderful book called notes on blindness, about his experience of losing his eyesight. He talks about thunder putting a roof over his head. Or when it rains, suddenly the contours of the world become apparent to him. It's an aspect of sound that we that we don't necessarily a notice. And i talk about ecolocation and how we're all using ecolocation to some degree.

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