This non-fiction book will change the way you perceive reality: A Big World by Ed Yong.
The Earth is full of images and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But each species of animal, including humans, is locked in its own sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny part of our immense world.
In An Immense World, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and science journalist Ed Yong takes us beyond the limits of our own senses, allowing us to perceive skeins of odors, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surrounds us. We encounter beetles attracted to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that the scaly face of a crocodile is as sensitive as the fingertips of a lover, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see glistening whales, that plants vibrate with the inaudible songs of insects in yard, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their melodies, and what dogs smell in the street. We hear stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead to the many mysteries that remain unsolved.
The word I intended to use for sensory bubble was /"umwelt/" sorry for the mispronunciation.
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