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Secret Worlds: The Extraordinary Senses of Animals

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Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret worlds.

Our senses of vision, smell, taste, hearing, and touch are essential for us to respond to threats, communicate and interact with the world around us. This is true for all animals - their sensory systems are key to survival, and without them animals would be completely helpless. However, the sensory systems of other animals work very differently from ours. For example, many animals from spiders to birds can detect and respond to ultraviolet light, to which we are blind. Other animals, including many insects, rodents, and bats can hear high-frequency ultrasonic sounds well beyond our own hearing range. Many other species have sensory systems that we lack completely, such as the magnetic sense of birds, turtles, and other animals, or the electric sense of many fish. These differences in sensory ability have a major bearing on the ways that animals behave and live in different environments, and also affect their evolution and ecology.

In this book, Martin Stevens explores the remarkable sensory systems that exist in nature, and what they are used for. Discussing how different animal senses work, he also considers how they evolve, how they are shaped by the environment in which an animal lives, and the pioneering science that has uncovered how animals use their senses. Throughout, he celebrates the remarkable diversity of life, and shows how the study of sensory systems has shed light on some of the most important issues in animal behaviour, physiology, and evolution.

Συγγραφέας: Stevens Martin
Εκδότης: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 272
ISBN: 9780198813675
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2021

Preface
1:A Plethora of Senses
2:Singing Mice and Painting Pictures with Sound
3:For My Eyes Only
4:Electric Attraction
5:Stars of the Tactile World
6:Smelling in Stereo
7:Homing Turtles and Animal Magnetism
8:A Changing World

Martin Stevens is a professor in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter. He has spent more than 15 years studying the coloration, behaviour and vision of animals, publishing nearly 150 scientific articles on the subject. His research focuses on how animals use coloration for defence against predators, especially in marine creatures, birds and insects. He was recently awarded the Zoological Society of London's Science Medal for his work. He is an active science communicator, appearing a number of times on TV and radio, giving public lectures at prestigious venues around the world, and working with famous organisations and museums on science and art exhibitions. His other popular science books include Cheats and Deceits (2016) and Secret Worlds (2021).

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