Atma

“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

“For creatures like these that are constantly immersed in liquid, the distinction between taste and smell can be so confusing that one neuroscientist just told me, “I avoid thinking about it.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“We only have a rough sense of the sense that senses roughness.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“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