i've argued that climate change, the sixth mass extinction of wild life and the rising throat of panedemics are all part of the same problem. If we want a world in which what we've just been through for three years doesn't happen again, we're going to need to fix the other problems as well. One thing that was interesting to me was a, the animals a lot of people hate repeatedly feature in the book. So there are lots of bits about spiders, snakes, scorpions and sharks. But they are also creatures i've always been drawn to. I find snakes extraordinarily beautiful. I find bats phenomenally cool. It's hard to pick a favourite, but i
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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