Coming to Our Animal Senses

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Animals experience the world differently. There are insects that can see ultraviolet light, while some snakes can hunt in the dark thanks to their ability to sense infrared. Such differences are not restricted to vision: Elephants can hear subsonic sounds, birds navigate by magnetism, and your dog lives in a world marked by odors. In this episode, we speak to science journalist Ed Yong about how other creatures sense the world. Could we ever understand what it’s like to have the hearing of a bat or the sight of a hawk? Guest: Ed Yong – Science writer for The Atlantic whose coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned him a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism. He is the author of, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.” Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Maybe it seems... Consider the sight sounds and smells of your typical morning.
1:14.0	Maybe it's seeing the orange shoes of sunrise,
1:17.0	or maybe hearing the melodies of birds
1:19.0	or taking in the aroma freshly brute coffee.
1:22.0	It may feel like your sensory world is full of activity, but
1:25.8	you're missing out on things. If you had infrared vision, for example, you could actually
1:30.3	see the heat emanating from the coffee pot and imagine being an animal with heightened
1:35.8	old factory senses.
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