An Immense World How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong had a great book called an immense world where he talks about every animal is like covered with all these sensors and these sensors are survival mechanisms were just figuring out you know, what foods am I comfortable eating? What person am I comfortable trusting? Is this a safe environment all these things questions that we know to ask questions that we don't know how to ask.

You know, I have to tell you, just as a bit of a side note, I recently read Ed Yong's book, An Immense World, and it was so funny because I listened to your TED Talk from 2015 actually, so seven years ago, and you were talking about Umwelt back in that talk, which is something, I don't know if you've read Ed's book yet, it's gonna sound very familiar.

He also just published a book called An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.

We go on what we call a sniff walk. Like we go at his pace and we do what he wants. And what he wants to do is sniff.

Until I read Ed's book, I didn't even know that they could see. I also didn't know that sea turtles use the Earth's magnetic field to allow them to swim around the world and then still find the exact beach where they were hatched.

So each of us is trapped in our own sensory bubble and perceiving just this thin sliver of the fullness of reality.

I think it's that I feel that I gain so much from thinking about the creatures around us. I understand them better, and I understand my world better.

Then we had uh Ed Milet's book launch uh for for his uh new book that is amazing.