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Weird ways that animals experience the world differently to us

Many animals sense their surroundings in ways that are hard to imagine. Christie Taylor spoke to journalist Ed Yong about these different perspectives

By Ed Yong and Christie Taylor

5 September 2023

The following is a transcript from Âé¶¹´«Ã½’s CultureLab podcast. Subscribe and listen for free .

Christie Taylor: Science journalist Ed Yong is the author of . It’s just out in paperback, after being published last year. And it’s the story of over a hundred different species from around the world, and how they see, smell, hear and even detect electricity or heat in ways we can’t even begin to match. 

You meet beetles that fly hundreds of miles to the heat of distant…

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