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Ed Yong on the wondrous world of animal senses
Nature Podcast
What Are the Key Leaps in Our Understanding of Animal Sense?
The discovery of eco location was made by donald griffin in the 19 forties. The idea that bats, as one person put it, like sea with their ears is shocking to a lot of people at the time. And i think he wrote about this way in which the limitations of our own senses, and the dogmas that we build up because of those limitations, restrict our imaginations. It's stunning that when griffin established that bats could ecolocate, it then became much easier to find examples of equolocation an other creatures.
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