Atma

“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

“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

“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

“We need to spend some time in the weeds to appreciate the flowers.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us