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- Book Title
- Secret Worlds : the Extraordinary Senses of Animals
- Publication Name
- Secret Worlds
- Title
- Secret Worlds
- Subtitle
- The extraordinary senses of animals
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0198813678
- EAN
- 9780198813675
- ISBN
- 9780198813675
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Life Sciences / Biology, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
- Release Date
- 10/06/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 18.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198813678
ISBN-13
9780198813675
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13050025305
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret Worlds : the Extraordinary Senses of Animals
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Life Sciences / Biology, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql751
Reviews
While paying its dues to those amazing abilities of animals, Secret Worlds has some very intriguing things to say about the evolution and plasticity of the sense - and above all, the cost of acquiring them. [... ] One can only hope that Stevens will return with fresh insights in a few years., "a riveting new volume that explores the extraordinary senses of animals....This volume brings the wonders of these sensory worlds to a more general audience." -- Michael J. Ryan, Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol.97, no.1"While paying its dues to those amazing abilities of animals, Secret Worlds has some very intriguing things to say about the evolution and plasticity of the sense - and above all, the cost of acquiring them. [...] One can only hope that Stevens will return with fresh insights in a few years." -- Simon Ings, New Scientist, "While paying its dues to those amazing abilities of animals, Secret Worlds has some very intriguing things to say about the evolution and plasticity of the sense - and above all, the cost of acquiring them. [...] One can only hope that Stevens will return with fresh insights in a few years." -- Simon Ings, New Scientist, "a riveting new volume that explores the extraordinary senses of animals....This volume brings the wonders of these sensory worlds to a more general audience." -- Michael J. Ryan, Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol.97, no.1 "While paying its dues to those amazing abilities of animals, Secret Worlds has some very intriguing things to say about the evolution and plasticity of the sense - and above all, the cost of acquiring them. [...] One can only hope that Stevens will return with fresh insights in a few years." -- Simon Ings, New Scientist
Table of Content
Preface1. A Plethora of Senses2. Singing Mice and Painting Pictures with Sound3. For My Eyes Only4. Electric Attraction5. Stars of the Tactile World6. Smelling in Stereo7. Homing Turtles and Animal Magnetism8. A Changing World
Lccn
2021-934078
Dewey Decimal
591.5
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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