Comments on: Book review – Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved/2022/02/01/book-review-great-adaptations-star-nosed-moles-electric-eels-and-other-tales-of-evolutions-mysteries-solved/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:25:16 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review on Kenneth Catania’s On the Art and Craft of Doing Science – Integrative and Comparative Biology/2022/02/01/book-review-great-adaptations-star-nosed-moles-electric-eels-and-other-tales-of-evolutions-mysteries-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-95131Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:56:15 +0000/?p=16269#comment-95131[…] of ICB’s guest bloggers- The Inquisitive Biologist did a review of one of Catania’s other […]

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]]>By: Book review – An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/02/01/book-review-great-adaptations-star-nosed-moles-electric-eels-and-other-tales-of-evolutions-mysteries-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-50896Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:03:52 +0000/?p=16269#comment-50896[…] chapters on mechanoreception were particularly delightful. The star-nosed mole uses its tentacled nose as a touch organ: “with every press, its environment comes into focus […]

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]]>By: Book review – Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/02/01/book-review-great-adaptations-star-nosed-moles-electric-eels-and-other-tales-of-evolutions-mysteries-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-40627Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:06:42 +0000/?p=16269#comment-40627[…] of an optics text book and now they are a physics lesson on a stick” (p. 12). The nose of the star-nosed mole looks like a hand and provides a sense of touch, but acts more like an eye, having taken over the […]

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