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Ed Yong on how animal senses reveal the world around us

The TED Interview

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What Are You Guys Doing in the South Pacific?

As humans, we think that we invented global communications networks. To really get into what is it like to be a zibra finch, or or a whale or a tree hopper, requires a leap of imagination. There are always going to be limits to what science can tell us and what is knowable about the unvelt of another creature. And in this ther, is something very rewarding about having to flex your mind in tha specific way,. even if you know that youill never fully get at the answer.

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