Ed Yong on the wondrous world of animal senses
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The Umvalt Idea
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.
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