We talk about one of the earliest animal senses, – chemosensation — or our sense of taste and smell. We discuss how animals use these senses to explore their environment and communicate ...

What if humans could see in the dark like owls, hear ultrasonic sounds like bats, or sense heat like snakes? Imagine a world ...

Animals experience the world differently. There are insects that can see ultraviolet light, while some snakes can hunt in the dark thanks to their ability to sense infrared. Such differences are not ...

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us opens not with a joke, but with a thought experiment: How would each of these creatures perceive the colors, textures, smells, ...

Biologist Patrick Aryee and physicist Helen Czerski go beyond the limits of human perception to explore the extraordinary and surprising world of animal senses.

In the past, confined by our five senses, humans have got a lot wrong about the ways animals sense their environments. How can we move beyond our sensory limitations to better understand the natural ...

Biologist Patrick Aryee and physicist Helen Czerski go beyond the limits of human perception to explore the extraordinary and surprising world of animal senses.