How do other animals view the world?
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The doors of animal perception © delachaux et niestle
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
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Today we look into the faceted eye of a butterfly, we listen with radar radar ears of a bat, to feel the world with each of the tentacles of an octopus, or through the flair of a dog, to vibrate on a spider's web and guide us while dancing with the bees… If the sensory universes of other animals seem strange to us, they are often much more complete than the one we perceive with our five senses.
So to better understand them, let's open wide the doors of animal perception with our guest:
Benoît Grison
, Doctor of Cognitive Sciences, biologist and sociologist of science.
His book
The Doors of Animal Perception
has just been published by Delachaux and Niestlé editions.
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