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Author : Bernard Stonehouse,Esther Bertram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439518075
Discover the secrets and myths about animal senses. From the simplest amoeba to the brightest ape, learn the simple truths about how animals operate.
Author : Pamela Hickman
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781550744255
"Stunning illustrations combined with fascinating facts reveal the ways animals sense their environment. Easy experiments show kids how to compare animal senses to their own" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.
Author : Ed Yong
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781039003910
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong “One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”—Oprah Daily ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Publishers Weekly, BookPage ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Globe and Mail, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses to encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, 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 that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”
Author : Martin Stevens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192543134
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.
Author : Bernard Stonehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0439518083
Discover the secrets and myths about animal intelligence. Are animals just as smart as humans? How do they learn? What are their instincts? Do they have feelings?
Author : Caroline Hutchinson
Publisher : Newmark Learning
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781607193029
Animals can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell things too. Some animals can do these things much better than you!
Author : Jackie Higgins
Publisher : Picador
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529030811
An enthralling examination of some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal kingdom, and what they tell us about what it means to be human.
Author : Gerhard von der Emde,Eric Warrant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319254920
The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics “matching” the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection of vital sensory stimuli while sensory inputs not necessary for the survival of the animal tend to be filtered out, or sacrificed. The individual contributions discuss that the evolution of sensing systems resulted from the necessity to achieve the most efficient sensing of vital information at the lowest possible energetic cost. Matched filters are found in all senses including vision, hearing, olfaction, mechanoreception, electroreception and infrared sensing and different cases will be referred to in detail.
Author : Robert Wellesley Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852167121
Author : Emmanuelle Grundmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177278303X
Explore the wild and wonderful world of animals who use senses including and beyond our familiar five. A dynamic, browsable work of children's nonfiction that "thoughtfully and exuberantly excites wonder in its readers" (Kirkus Reviews)
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547557991
Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.
Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543599701
In Amazing Animal Senses readers learn about some animals' super sensing skills! Simple, leveled text accompanies vivid images and engaging design to make these books a popular choice.
Author : Pamela Hickman,David MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000060501257
Adapted by David MacDonald from author's Animal senses.
Author : Lucy Cooke
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465094653
Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins "holding hands," it's hard for us not to project our own values--innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work--onto animals. So you've probably never considered if moose get drunk, penguins cheat on their mates, or worker ants lay about. They do--and that's just for starters. In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret--and often hilarious--habits of the animal kingdom. Charming and at times downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who has ever suspected that virtue might be unnatural.
Author : Patricia J. Wynne
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486817484
Your brain uses our five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — to figure out what's going on in the world around you. This book shows how your senses work by combining easy-to-understand explanations with detailed illustrations for you to color. You'll also find out about similarities and differences between human and animal sensory perception. Discover the nervous system, the pathway of sensory information, and how neurons receive and send data. Read about synesthesia, an extreme form of perception that enables people to hear sounds in response to smell, feel something in response to sight, and experience other unusual sensory combinations. Learn about special animal senses that detect heat, provide night vision, and alert birds, fish, and mammals to when it's time to migrate. These and other fascinating aspects of the senses are described and illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations to color.