Completed: 8/30/2022
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: I cannot remember, but I think it was an article in Philosophy Now! It is equally likely that I saw something in The Atlantic.
Review:
This is an adventure book. It is an adventure into the world of animals through their senses. It is intriguing to think about how each different animal uses its senses and how senses that we would not normally consider (e.g. touch-taste) are fundamental to the way that certain animals view the world. This information and the deep dive into it is, itself, interesting. The further considerations of things like how we are polluting the world through senses that we either do not have, do not consider important, or have to a much smaller extent (e.g. echo location is possible for humans, but it is nothing like a bat's form of echo location) is draw dropping. It seems like the human impact on the world is brutal any way you look (touch, taste, feel, etc.) at it. I enjoyed the perspective and hope that the concepts of viewing the world literally through another creature's eyes is a concept that stays with me.
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