Comments on: Book review – An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Book review – Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:59:51 +0000

[…] Thus, they “inhabit a selected slice of reality” (p. 54), immediately calling to mind Ed Yong’s definition of an animal’s Umwelt. Last firecracker: an animal learns from its past by reinforcing […]

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By: Book review – A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:28:17 +0000

[…] system. It is not “produced” by it” (p. 38). I think Ed Yong said the same in An Immense World about an animal’s sensory world: “it is not separate from the body, but of it” […]

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By: Book review – The Mind of a Bee | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Mind of a Bee | The Inquisitive Biologist — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:55:43 +0000

[…] touch and electric fields. How do bees tell those sensations apart? Much as Ed Yong described in An Immense World, Chittka thinks they possibly do not, “the two types of stimuli […] felt as variations […]

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By: Book review – What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:51:50 +0000

[…] woven through this book is the importance of understanding animals on their terms. Ed Yong’s An Immense World is one recent example of this welcome trend amongst science writers and Ackerman appropriately […]

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By: Book review – If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:40:30 +0000

[…] But does that mean, as Gregg concludes, that ants have little understanding of death? Or rather, as Ed Yong has written elsewhere, that we fail to understand animals on their terms? In a world dominated by smell, they seem to […]

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By: The Secret Perfume Of Birds: Uncovering The Science Of Avian Scent - 3 Quarks Daily

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:30:44 +0000

[…] is effectively chemoreception (the sensing of chemical gradients in your environment) and was one of the first senses to evolve, why would birds have no use for it? The Secret Perfume of Birds tells the story of 15 years […]

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By: Book review – The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:33:11 +0000

[…] smell is effectively chemoreception (the sensing of chemical gradients in your environment) and was one of the first senses to evolve, why would birds have no use for it? The Secret Perfume of Birds tells the story of 15 years spent […]

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By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2022 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:35:59 +0000

[…] As I was drafting this post, Ed Yong’s newsletter announced that this book has already been featured on 38 end-of-year lists. Well, make that 39. Taking some downtime from reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic for The Atlantic, Yong returned to publisher The Bodley Head and churned out An Immense World, a book on how animals perceive the world that had me so utterly captivated I did not want it to end. Read more… […]

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By: Book review – When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:04:43 +0000

[…] Bekoff, this book will be right up your alley. It even throws in, without explicitly mentioning it, Jakob von Uexküll’s idea of animal Umwelten: the idea that different species have different sensory windows onto the world. Peña-Guzmán adds […]

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By: Book review – From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:23:31 +0000

[…] is all the more reason to push for trying to understand animals on their terms, taking into account their unique sensory window on the world. Safina, for instance, has been justifiably critical of the utility of the mirror-recognition test […]

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