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Ed Yong on how animal senses reveal the world around us

The TED Interview

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What's the Hardest Thing About Magnetic Reception?

Magnetic reception is uniquely difficult to write about for a few reasons. We still don't know what the sense organ that detects magnetic fields in these animals it its. A lot of studies in this fielda are wrong or have been disproven. And then i think the limits of our language andOur own senses greatly limit our understanding of the sensei want to take a step back and think about what we can learn as humans, from this immense world that you're chronicling.

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