The umweld concept was popularized by a german zoologist named jahevon uke. He recognized that every species has its own set of sights and smells and sounds textures that it can perceive, and that might be very different from what another creature can perceive. The idea is about how all that we perceive, even though it feels like all there is to perceive, is in fact just a tiny sliver of the fulness of reality. venuko imagined the ability to think about the invults of other creatures as an act of travel,. Like he the first time he wrote about ye he pitched his book as a sort of travelogue.
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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