An interview with author Ed Yong.

Watch as Ed Yong, Pulitzer-winning science journalist and author of An Immense World, speaks with ICN executive editor Vernon Loeb about the extraordinary sensory worlds of animals, and the concept of the Umwelt, or the parts of an animal’s surroundings that it can uniquely perceive, sense and experience.

The Extraordinary Sensory Worlds of Animals

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By Kiley Bense

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