'Wonderful mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any
you'll find in science fiction' The Times Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian Enter a new
dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. The Earth teems with sights
and textures sounds and vibrations smells and tastes electric and magnetic fields. But every
animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble perceiving only a tiny sliver of an
immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it
is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires turtles that
can track the Earth's magnetic fields fish that fill rivers with electrical messages and
humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as
a lover's fingertips that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs and that
even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers what songbirds
hear in their tunes and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal
discoveries in the field while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved. Ed Yong
coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses allowing us to perceive the threads of scent
waves of electromagnetism and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to
understand our world we don't need to travel to other places we need to see through other
eyes. 'A stunning achievement - steeped in science but suffused with magic' Siddhartha
Mukherjee author The Emperor of All Maladies 'Magnificent - an unbelievably immersive and
mind-blowing account of how other animals experience our world' Peter Wohlleben author of The
Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals 'A delightful sensory experience: to see the
world through the touch-vision of a scallop to taste through the feet of a mosquito and hear
through the feet of an elephant' Gaia Vince author of Transcendence
