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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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riverofhorton's review

adventurous challenging dark funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book was an incredibly interesting read, and even though I already knew some of the basic facts of animal sense, this book allowed a much richer kind of understanding that I wouldn't have otherwise. I largely decided to read this as research for a novel idea I have, but I will be recommending it to anyone that is even remotely curious about animals and how much of the world we miss due to it being outside our own perception. The main take away from this book seems to be one of conservation. When species go extinct, so does their way of perceiving the world since each animal has its own unique way of doing so. Thus, the message seems to be to act now to save all the endangered species while we still can. A message that I can wholeheartedly get behind. I particularly enjoyed the sections about the echolocation of bats, and the movement sensors in spiders' legs. Other section brought up some ethical questions that I wouldn't have even considered prior to reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic