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.
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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