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“Jumping spiders remind us that we share a visual reality with other sighted creatures, but we experience it in utterly different ways. “We don’t have to look to aliens from other planets,” Jakob tells me. “We have animals that have a completely different interpretation of what the world is right next to us.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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“It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know. This is an illusion, and one that every animal shares.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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“As we desecrate sensory environments, we become accustomed to the results. As we push animals away, we get used to their absence.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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“blue whale, the ocean is not blue. Cone cells are unique to vertebrates, but other animals have wavelength-specific photoreceptors that play a similar role. Surprisingly, the cephalopods—octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish—have just one class of these, which means they are also monochromats.[*2] They can rapidly change the colors of their skin yet are unable to see their own shifting hues.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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“Many birds of prey, like eagles, falcons, and vultures, actually have two acute zones in each eye—one that looks forward, and another that looks out at a 45-degree angle. The side-facing one is sharper, and it’s the one that many raptors use when hunting. When a peregrine falcon dives after a pigeon, it doesn’t plunge straight at its prey. Instead, it flies along a descending spiral. That’s the only way it can keep the pigeon within its murderous side-eye, while also pointing its head down and maintaining a streamlined shape.[*20”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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