BookPaul A. Moore.
Summary: Have you ever thought about what a dog smells as it stops to sniff at a tree? Or what a cat is watching as it stares intensely off into space? What about animals in the wild? What do they see, hear, smell, and feel? How do they perceive their surroundings? This is the illusive world. A world filled with fascinating stimuli that we are not equipped to detect. This is particularly true because we tend to rely so heavily on our eyes or ears. We are figuratively, and literally, blind to this part of the natural world. This part, which is full of stimuli we cannot perceive, encompasses the daily lives of so many animals. Beneath our feet are ants, moles, and spiders using vibrations to coordinate colonies and communicate danger. In the oceans, turtles, fish, and octopi are sensitive to magnetic and electric fields, as well as tasty morsels at the tips of their tentacles. In the skies, owls and raptors can see deep into a lake or pierce the night with highly sensitive eyes. This book brings together all these animals and their amazing sensory abilities in an exploration of how animals perceive their world. Within these pages are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using their senses to perform sophisticated communication with nestmates, find hidden prey in the dark of night or murky of depths, and call to lovers both near and far. This book will open the door to this illusive world and will take you on a journey into the illusive world and see how different the world is when perceived through another animals senses.
Contents:
Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Part I: The Sensuous World;
Chapter 1: What's Mine Is Mine and What's Yours Is Yours; 1.1 The Sensuous World; 1.2 The Mind's Eye; 1.3 The Illusive World; 1.4 What Really Is Reality?; Part II: Vision;
Chapter 2: Eyes as Windows to the Soul; 2.1 Double Vision; 2.2 The Science of the Four-Eyed Fish;
Chapter 3: The Pollinator's Garden; 3.1 On the Hunt for Nectar; 3.2 The Science of the Bee's Flowery Vision;
Chapter 4: Finding the Way Home; 4.1 You Can Go Back Home Again; 4.2 The Science of Seeing the Unseen 22.2 The Science of Tasting with Your Body
Chapter 23: More Than a Feeling; 23.1 A Sucker for Good Food; 23.2 The Science of Tasting with Tentacles;
Chapter 24: At Death's Door; 24.1 A Gut Feeling; 24.2 The Science of Internal Taste;
Chapter 25: A Different Chemical View; 25.1 Smelling with a Fork; 25.2 The Science of Tracking with Tongues;
Chapter 26: The Gustatory World; Part VI: Tactile;
Chapter 27: Picking Up Good Vibrations; 27.1 There Came a Tapping; 27.2 The Science of a Touching Reply;
Chapter 28: Coordinating the Team; 28.1 Someone Gently Rapping
Chapter 11: The Sound of Fear; 11.1 The Song of the Flying Tigers; 11.2 The Science of Jamming and Diving;
Chapter 12: Sound Beneath the Waves; 12.1 The Keith Moon of the Deep; 12.2 The Science of the Fishy Sound;
Chapter 13: The Lover's Voice; 13.1 Kiss the Girl; 13.2 The Science of Singing Silly Love Songs;
Chapter 14: The Power of Sound; Part IV: Olfaction;
Chapter 15: The Smell of Warm Bread; 15.1 Long-Distance Relationships; 15.2 The Science of Tracing the Call of Love;
Chapter 16: This Is Not My House; 16.1 Following the Ribbon of Odor; 16.2 The Science of Recognizing Home
Chapter 17: Better Lies Through Chemistry; 17.1 When We First Practice to Deceive; 17.2 The Science of Making Chemical Cocktails;
Chapter 18: Can't We All Just Get Along?; 18.1 The Secret Handshake; 18.2 The Science of a Coat of Arms;
Chapter 19: Social Resume; 19.1 Fighting by Molecular Means; 19.2 The Science of a Chemical History;
Chapter 20: The Emotion of Chemicals; Part V: Gustation;
Chapter 21: Putting Your Best Foot Forward; 21.1 The Walk of Life; 21.2 The Science of Tasting with Your Feet;
Chapter 22: The Sweet Taste of Life; 22.1 Searching the Dark for Food
Chapter 5: I Can See for Miles and Miles and Miles; 5.1 I Spy with My Little Eye Something; 5.2 The Science of Precision Talon Strikes;
Chapter 6: Peering into the Darkness; 6.1 Seeing in the Absence of Light; 6.2 The Science of Nighttime Vision;
Chapter 7: Technicolor Dreamcoats; 7.1 The Different Hues of Aggression; 7.2 The Science of Multicolor Worlds;
Chapter 8: The Eye as a Window to the World; Part III: Audition;
Chapter 9: The Music of Nature;
Chapter 10: All About the Bass; 10.1 Hearing the Earth Move Under Your Feet; 10.2 The Science of the Distant Rumble of Words