Quiver’s Reviews > An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us > Status Update

‘The controversies about animal pain often assume that they either feel exactly what we feel or nothing at all, as if they’re either little people or sophisticated robots’ (130).

Assuming that a squid doesn’t feel something is wrong because it doesn’t nurse its lopped off limb is wrong — experiments show the squid’s whole body becomes sensitive after injury, not just the place of injury.

The most insightful nontechnical overview of colour vision that I’ve read in a while. Birds are tetrachromats that see UV light—and so much more.