i'm trying to show you know, both what we know, but also b the limits of that knowledge. Can whales hear each other over those long distances? Maybe? Can they communicate? Harder imagine, but not impossible to imagine. I think if you didn't do any of the imaginative stuff, the book would just be joyless. Whereas if you just went on like flight in fancy at the time, it would feel like almost like a work of science fiction. But i think this is the kind of thing that we should be thinking and it seems like there's a balance to be struck.
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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