The hidden sensory world of animals | Ed Yong

[@bigthink]

What animal would you most like to experience the thoughts of?

[@samuraitrax6597]

crocodile pleaseee

[@dampcloth]

I once had a very vivid dream/ nightmare of being a pig that was about to be slaughtered. The fear and knowledge of what was about to happen to me was real. My environment felt really dark. And the humans felt like fire.

[@PhillipAmthor]

An octopus because i want to know how they feel about their arms. Or a monkey or dolphin because i want to know how they think about themself and their relationships to their group in order to learn about how group dynamics in other species work

[@matthewnelson325]

Knowing a creatures sensory perception is a very unique concept ... Thank you for sharing this video !

[@saammahakala]

@dampcloth it's extremely likely you experienced a memory. Think of Souls, asides from inner light and outer flesh, as spherical ethereal hard drives that not only can store information, but can have information unwritten as well as rewritten. On the mornings of September 1st & 2nd, 2017 I dreamt identical dreams of standing in front of a thin, tall Indian Guru that was wearing a sky blue turban that held a tiny ruby in its center, dressed as a modern day school teacher with slacks, shoes and all. He sat on the front left corner (from my perspective) of his desk talking to me of things I know not. When he finished I replied with, "I understand!" and went to take the first empty seat at the front of the class. The next morning I was asleep for several seconds longer and that was where I got to see the framed picture of his disciple hanging above his chalkboard, who later came to me personally in another dream in August of 2018 eleven months after his Guru appeared to me. But before I came upon him in that dream, as he was standing in a glass Lotus bud atop a red roofed octagonal Ashram, I was introduced to a scene where a certain four-legged female animal was up against a cave wall balling her eyes out. From my point of view, my awareness was ascending from out of the body it had just inhabited, which I got to see being dragged down into the water by another kind of four-legged animal. The only conclusion I can come to is that, the female animal that was crying was doing so because she had lost her last baby., me. If I'm right, then that animal may have been a life lived by that second "dead" Guru that had appeared to me, which would explain why he had taken and given credit for the lives I possibly had lived, when he was last alive, because our awarenesses possibly share in the same or similar frequency.🤔

[@ll.8329]

Seeing the senses of animals as an alternative universe is such a beautiful mindset.

[@spacemanspiff6332]

I like to think of it as, same universe, different perception.

[@trancoteyuteyu7548]

@@spacemanspiff6332 I think it's much more interesting like that. The same universe is perceived in an infinite amount of ways. Mind-blowing.

[@TrevsTreehouse]

I think that's just a practical or obvious perspective more than anything but ig it is still beautiful. The truth of nature is always beautiful Imo. That is how it is which is why we gain so much insight from other organisms.

[@TrevsTreehouse]

I also see the differing opinions of humans in this way. Nobody is right or wrong. They are just perceiving things in a different way because logic is in a way, a sense that is developed from prior experiences and maybe some genetics. So they live in an alternate world even though the majority of their other senses are probably comparable to other humans. Differences in sensual acuity and resulting perception differences in humans would probably be a cool study too though.

[@darrellturner560]

I use that as a meditation. Brings me closer to nature, the animals, insects and plants around me. It is a beautiful space, place to be in.

[@dryzalizer]

Not to mention, some animals like certain birds can sense the earth's magnetic field for navigation and dolphins can use sonar like radar for echolocation, which I think qualifies as more than just a great sense of hearing.

[@spjr99]

It's a lot more than you'd think. Many animals can sense it

[@TrevsTreehouse]

A couple years ago they discovered that humans also have this ability but to a lesser extent and we haven't used it in forever so its not as honed. We have somatic cells that are magnetorecetptive but idk if they're as acute.

[@WorldKeepsSpinnin]

@@TrevsTreehouse what do you mean? Echolocation or seeing the magnetic field? I know we can echolocate but I sure can’t see that field anywhere

[@douggaudiosi14]

Dolphins are able to echo locate and replicate the sound the received then produce that sound for other dolphins allowing that other dolphin to essentially "see" what the original dolphin saw using its initial echo location

[@bernardesp_]

@@WorldKeepsSpinnin There is a talk somewhere about Quantum Mechanics and bird's magnetic field perception check it out. Basically the influence of earth's magnetic field in relation to the birds head can manipulate electrons spins of the bird's eye for production of certain proteins that affect their vision, like so they could know which path is the correct according to the magnetic field

[@mpv9866]

When my dog is riding in my truck with me, he knows when we are about a half mile to a mile from our destination. He begins to get excited, looking and sniffing, moving about the seats etc. Doesn't matter if we've ever been to said location or not, or from which direction we arrive to a familiar spot. Amazes me, 100% accurate, also has a perfect record with predicting rain...tv meterologists can't hold a candle

[@chrisconnors7418]

He’s one of my favourite writers ever since his blog days at NERS. I’m looking forward to reading Ed’s latest book on animal senses soon…I already have it loaded on my eReader.

[@Noneofyourbyisness]

Reading it now 👍🏾

[@johnshields6852]

I'm 62 and have been studying animal behavior and the abilities for maybe 45 years, the Earth's creatures are fascinating, this show is excellent, great insight into the workings of different animal senses, clear speech, proper language, I'm very impressed with your commentary. Wonderful, I hope you continue bringing more subjects to your audience. Very much appreciated. 🙏

[@os2171]

you are an inspiration! I'm 44 and I've been studying animal behaviour for about 20 years (frogs' acoustic communication, fish electro sense and bees' multisensory integration) its fascinating! any advice?

[@eric_grossman]

This might be my favorite Big Think video!! I've been studying my own experience very deeply the past couple of years, so putting that in perspective with other completely unimaginable experiences of other other animals is fascinating.

[@bigthink]

Awesome, so glad to hear!

[@miguelpadron1630]

Doesnt every one study their own experience since day 1 ?

[@eric_grossman]

​@@miguelpadron1630 I agree - everyone is always reacting and learning from their circumstances. So to clarify, I'm referring to being conscious of, and deliberate about, that process. Thanks for the question Miguel :)

[@aidenn4929]

You should read his book, an immense world, it’s amazing

[@iArpanMishra]

Apart from the immense knowledge this man has, his vocabulary is just incredible!

[@brettrichardson7924]

its almost scary to imagine how much of reality we cannot see or simply ignore due to poor processing.

[@PierceArner]

I love when these are things that we can also simulate like being able to use cameras to show what infrared or ultraviolet perception will do, and how even seemingly simple things like glass that can block certain types of light means that something we see as transparent could appear totally opaque to another creature, or how there are certain types of markings animals have that are totally invisible to us but that other creatures can perceive. I think the most under-emphasized sense for humans is scent though, as it's liked to parts of the brain that are a deeply rooted foundation of a lot of our social and memory functions that are far more important than we often give them credit for.

[@danielxmiller]

yeah that is cool! It's also difficult to imagine that what the cameras see as infrared or ultraviolet, xray etc, aren't what it is showing us, it is converting what it sees into visible light...so we still have no clue what it is ACTUALLY seeing, we just see the conversion of what it sees. Strange to think about. :)

[@krissifadwa]

This is one of those channels that just keeps getting better and better.

[@jacobhuff3748]

Learned a little about this when I was watching about how how animals hear & see the world. Never considered that animals perception of time is different due to Critical Flicker Frequency.

[@supernatural_forces]

Time is relative, it is different for different beings. The Time in the Universe came after the explosion and Time outside the realm of Universe is also different. Like, in Hell, Heaven, Judgement Day, etc. And it is zero for Creator, its not passing. Few Attributes of Creator out of 99 which have been taught to humanity :- 4 Al-Quddus The Most Sacred, The Pure (The One who is pure from any imperfection and clear from children and adversaries). 6 Al-Mu’min The Infuser of Faith (The One who witnessed for Himself that no one is God but Him. And He witnessed for His believers that they are truthful in their belief that no one is God but Him). 7 Al-Muhaymin The Preserver of Safety, the Guardian (The One who witnesses the saying and deeds of His creatures). 8 Al-Azeez The Victorious, The Mighty One, The Strong, (The Defeater who is not defeated). 9 Al-Jabbar The Compeller, The Forceful One, The Omnipotent One (The One that nothing happens in His Dominion except that which He willed). 10 Al-Mutakabbir The Dominant One, the Greatest (The One who is clear from the attributes of the creatures and from resembling them). 11 Al-Khaaliq The Creator (The One who brings everything from non-existence to existence). 12 Al-Baari The Evolver, The Maker (of Order) (The Creator who has the Power to turn the entities). 13 Al-Musawwir The Fashioner, The Shaper of Beauty, The Flawless Shaper (The One who forms His creatures in different pictures). 14 Al-Ghaffaar The Great Forgiver, The Forgiver (The One who forgives the sins of His slaves time and time again). 15 Al-Qahhaar The All-Prevailing One, The Dominant (The One who has the perfect Power and has Power over All things). 16 Al-Wahhab The Supreme Bestower (The One who is Generous in giving plenty without any return. He is everything that benefits whether Halal or Haram). 18 Al-Fattah The Supreme Solver, The Opener, The Reliever, The Judge (The One who opens for His slaves the closed worldly and religious matters). 20 Al-Qaabid The Restricting One, The Constrictor, The Withholder (The One who constricts the sustenance by His wisdom and expands and widens it with His Generosity and Mercy). 21 Al-Baasit The Extender, The Englarger, The Reliever (The One who constricts the sustenance by His wisdom and expands and widens it with His Generosity and Mercy). 22 Al-Khaafid The Reducer, The Abaser (The One who lowers whoever He willed by His Destruction and raises whoever He willed by His Endowment). 23 Ar-Rafi The Elevating One, The Exalter, The Elevator (The One who lowers whoever He willed by His Destruction and raises whoever He willed by His Endowment). 24 Al-Mu’izz The Honourer-Bestower, The Giver of Honor (He gives esteem to whoever He willed, hence there is no one to degrade him; And He degrades whoever He willed, hence there is no one to give him esteem). 25 Al-Muzil The Dishonourer, The Humiliator (He gives esteem to whoever He willed, hence there is no one to degrade him; And He degrades whoever He willed, hence there is no one to give him esteem). 26 As-Samee The All-Hearer, The Hearer (The One who Hears all things that are heard by His Eternal Hearing without an ear, instrument or organ). 27 Al-Baseer The All-Seeing, The All-Noticing (The One who Sees all things that are seen by His Eternal Seeing without a pupil or any other instrument). 28 Al-Hakam The Impartial Judge, The Judge (He is the Ruler and His judgment is His Word). 29 Al-Adl The Embodiment of Justice, The Just (The One who is entitled to do what He does). 31 Al-Khabeer The All-Aware One (The One who knows the Truth of things). 32 Al-Haleem The Clement One, The Forebearing (The One who delays the punishment for those who deserve it and then He might forgive them). 33 Al-Azeem The Magnificent One, The Great One, The Mighty (The One deserving the attributes of Exaltment, Glory, Extolement, and Purity from all imperfection). 35 Ash-Shakoor The Acknowledging One, The Grateful, The Appreciative, The Rewader of Thankfulness (The One who gives a lot of reward for a little obedience). 37 Al-Kabeer The Great One, The Most Great, The Great (The One who is greater than everything in status). 41 Al-Jaleel The Majestic One, The Sublime One, The Beneficent (The One who is attributed with greatness of Power and Glory of status). 44 Al-Mujeeb The Responding One, The Responsive, The Hearkener, The Responder of Prayer (The One who answers the one in need if he asks Him and rescues the yearner if he calls upon Him). 46 Al-Hakeem The Wise One, The Wise, The Judge of Judges (The One who is correct in His doings). 47 Al-Wadud The Loving One, The Most Loving (The One who loves His believing slaves and His believing slaves love Him. His love to His slaves is His Will to be merciful to them and praise them). 48 Al-Majeed The Glorious One, The Most Glorious One (The One who is with perfect Power, High Status, Compassion, Generosity and Kindness). 49 Al-Ba’ith The Infuser of New Life, The Resurrector, The Raiser (from death) (The One who resurrects His slaves after death for reward and/or punishment). 53 Al-Qawwiyy The Possessor of All Strength, the Strong One, The Most Strong (The One with the complete Power). 54 Al-Mateen The Firm One, the Forceful One (The One with extreme Power which is un-interrupted and He does not get tired). 57 Al-Muhsee The All-Enumerating One, The Counter, The Reckoner (The One who the count of things are known to Him). 58 Al-Mubdi The Originator (The One who can create Something from Nothing) 59 Al-Mueed The Restorer, The Reproducer (The One who brings back the creatures after death). 60 Al-Muhyi The Maintainer of life, The Restorer, The Giver of Life (The One who took out a living human from semen that does not have a soul. He gives life by giving the souls back to the worn out bodies on the resurrection day and He makes the hearts alive by the light of knowledge). 61 Al-Mumeet The Inflictor of Death, The Creator of Death, The Destroyer (The One who renders the living dead). 62 Al-Hayy The Eternally Living One , The Alive (The One attributed with a life that is unlike our life and is not that of a combination of soul, flesh or blood). 66 Al-Waahid The Only One, The Unique, The One (The One without a partner). 69 Al-Qaadir The All Powerful, the Omnipotent One, The Able, The Capable (The One attributed with Power). 70 Al-Muqtadir The Creator of All Power, All Authoritative One, The Powerful, The Dominant (The One with the perfect Power that nothing is withheld from Him). 71 Al-Muqaddim The Expediting One, The Expediter, The Promoter (The One who puts things in their right places. He makes ahead what He wills and delays what He wills). 72 Al-Mu’akhkhir The Procrastinator, The Delayer, the Retarder (The One who puts things in their right places. He makes ahead what He wills and delays what He wills). 73 Al-Awwal The Very First , The First (The One whose Existence is without a beginning). 74 Al-Akhir The Infinite Last One, The Last (The One whose Existence is without an end). 75 Az-Zaahir The Perceptible, The Manifest (The One that nothing is above Him and nothing is underneath Him, hence He exists without a place. He, The Exalted, His Existence is obvious by proofs and He is clear from the delusions of attributes of bodies). 76 Al-Baatin The Imperceptible, The Hidden (The One that nothing is above Him and nothing is underneath Him, hence He exists without a place. He, The Exalted, His Existence is obvious by proofs and He is clear from the delusions of attributes of bodies). 79 Al-Barr The Fountain-Head of Truth, The Source of All Goodness, The Righteous (The One who is kind to His creatures, who covered them with His sustenance and specified whoever He willed among them by His support, protection, and special mercy). 80 At-Tawwaab The Ever-Acceptor of Repentance, The Guide to Repentance (The One who grants repentance to whoever He willed among His creatures and accepts his repentance). 81 Al-Muntaqim The Retaliator, The Avenger (The One who victoriously prevails over His enemies and punishes them for their sins. It may mean the One who destroys them). 82 Al-Afuww The Supreme Pardoner, The Forgiver The One with wide forgiveness. 83 Ar-Ra’oof The Benign One, The Compassionate (The One with extreme Mercy. The Mercy of Allah is His will to endow upon whoever He willed among His creatures). 84 Maalik-ul-Mulk The Eternal Possessor of Sovereignty, The Owner of All (The One who controls the Dominion and gives dominion to whoever He willed). 85 Zul-Jalaali-wal-Ikram The Possessor of Majesty and Honour, The Lord of Majesty and Bounty (The One who deserves to be Exalted and not denied). 87 Al-Jaami’ The Assembler of Scattered Creations, The Gatherer (The One who gathers the creatures on a day that there is no doubt about, that is the Day of Judgment). 88 Al-Ghaniyy The Rich One, The Self-Sufficient One (The One who does not need the creation). 89 Al-Mughni The Bestower of Sufficiency, The Enricher (The One who satisfies the necessities of the creatures). 90 Al-Maani’ The Preventer of Harm, The Withholder (The One who prevent Harm & Delays things). 91 Ad-Daarr The Creator of the Harmful, The Distressor (The One who makes harm reach to whoever He willed and benefit to whoever He willed). 92 An-Naafi’ The Creator of Good, The Bestower of Benefits , The Propitious (The One who makes harm reach to whoever He willed and benefit to whoever He willed). 93 An-Noor The Prime Light, The Light (The One who guides). 98 Ar-Rasheed The Guide to Path of Rectitude, The Guide to the Right Path, The Righteous Teacher (The One who guides). 99 As-Saboor The Extensively Enduring One, The Patient (The One who does not quickly punish the sinners).

[@Jack_Aubrey]

@@supernatural_forces Who told you all that?

[@supernatural_forces]

@@Jack_Aubrey If you analyse what Scientists say regarding the matter, space, time and the creation of the Universe. They say there was no time before the Universe. Regarding the Attributes, it is taught to humanity through Prophets send by the Creator. There had been many changes in the Laws since first man Adam (p.b.u.h.) put step on Earth, like, Alcohol 🍷 was prohibited later in the time of Mohammed (p.b.u.h.). The children of Adam (p.b.u.h.) married among themselves. However, the Law of Worshipping One Creator had always been there. He sent many Prophets & Books throughout time but they were meant for that particular period until a fresh message came. The most important message of submitting to only one Creator had always been there since first human put step 👣 on Earth. With the passage of time & people who disobeyed the Creator have kept on changing the message throughout time. Some started worshipping created things, some made forbidden things permissible & vice - versa due to various reasons. Some did so for profit, some for seperate followers, some because of their rebellious nature & ego. Some civilizations even tried to kill Prophets sent by Allah s.w.t. who were conveying the message. But, in the end all the civilizations had been destroyed & punished by Allah s.w.t. with a severe punishment. There had been many messengers who came since the creation of the Earth and there had been many Tribes which have been completely destroyed/ Annihilated. There are 114 Chapters in Quran containing about 6,000 verses. Some verses about destruction of previous few civilizations. ↓ 'But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning, And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay. Surely in that are indeed signs for the scrutinizers (i.e., Those who look for the destroyed cities). And their place is located by a known route (perhaps from Makkah to Syria i.e. the place where the Dead Sea is now). Surely in this is a sign for those who believe. And the dwellers in the wood indeed were evil-doers. So We inflicted punishment upon them, and both of them are (situated) by a highway, clearly visible. The people of Al-Hijr (stone valley) also rejected Our messengers. And We provided them with Our signs yet they kept turning away from them. And of the mountains they used to carve homes, feeling safe. But the mighty blast overtook them in the morning. And of no avail to them was all that they did (with such art and care)! We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them without a truthful purpose. The Hour is surely coming, so overlook (O Muhammed) their faults with gracious forgiveness. Your Lord is indeed the Creator of all, the All-Knowing.' [Chapter 15 Al-Hijr (The rocky tract) : 73-87]. And how many generation We destroyed before them, who were far mightier than them. Then when the torment came, they desperately sought refuge in the land. But was there any escape?' Surah Qaf (50 : 36) This verse ↓ was revealed when Pagan Arabs/idolators used to ask, how our bones will get assembled when they get dismantled after death ? 'Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. Still people want to deny what is yet to come, asking mockingly, “When is this Day of Judgment?” So, when the eyes will be dazzled, and the moon will lose its light, and the sun and the moon will be joined together The sinning person will say on that day: Where is the escape? There is no escape on that day and there is no place in which the sinner can take refuge nor any place that he can seek protection in. On that day, towards your Lord will be the destination (of everyone.) On the day man will be informed about the actions that he sent forward and those that he left behind. Rather, man will be a witness against himself,' Surah (Chapter); Qiyamah (Resurrection) 75 : 3-14 Indeed, those who have persecuted the believing men and the believing women, then have not repented-for them is the punishment of Hell, and for them is the punishment of burning. As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, for them there are gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the big achievement. Indeed, the punishment of your Lord is severe. He it is Who creates for the first time and He it is Who will create again. And He is the Most Forgiving, the Most Loving, Lord of the Throne, the All-Glorious. [Al Buruj (The Stars/the mansions of the Stars] 85 : 10-15 1. Say, O Muhammed (Peace be upon him): "He is Allah, (the) One and Only. 2. Allah, the Eternal, Absolute (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks). 3. He has never had offspring, nor was He born. 4. And there is none like unto Him (Nothing can be compared to Him). [Chapter -112 Ikhlas (The Sincerity): 1 - 4]

[@Jack_Aubrey]

@@supernatural_forces "the prophets" told you. Looks like a case of "someone told you that someone told them".

[@supernatural_forces]

@@Jack_Aubrey Sir, testimony can not only be a source of knowledge but fundamental source of knowledge. Obviously i don't even have a laboratory and i haven't ever did a single experiment in my life to verify. But, we humans have been given consciousness, conscience, ability to reason, ability to challenge, do research and use rationale. If someone would come to me and say, The Sun ☀️ is God or Moon 🌙 is God, i would not hesitate to reject his idea and provide logical reasoning that why it couldn't be a God. According to my beliefs, He possess qualities which doesn't resembles His creation as many of which i already stated.

[@caryd67]

4:15 “yoink that clam” This phrase will never leave my mind. It’s imbedded forevermore.

[@lizreilly2493]

What an absolutely fascination presentation, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot I didn't know!

[@andylane7142]

What a fascinating subject to spend time thinking about. I remember years ago it took me months to remember this word from A level psychology. I was sure I hadn’t imagined it but couldn’t find anything on google. Eventually I remembered. To see such a esoteric word in my KZbin notifications was really nice. Especially considering how long I’d been unable to remember or find it.

[@ww3032]

I never knew there's A levels for psychology! Which country are you from?

[@andylane7142]

@@ww3032 UK, This was in 1998. I’m not sure what’s available now.

[@douggaudiosi14]

What was the word dude

[@andylane7142]

Hey, it was Umwelt. Not sure on the spelling.

[@ejhaneine3168]

That’s why psychedelics are so cool. They allow us to see at least a little more of the world around us

[@spjr99]

My favorite thing about animals is how we all see at a different frame rate relative to our metabolism and lifespan. Why you can never catch a fly unless you move very slow. Or how a sloth moves slow but to the sloth it's moving normally

[@SquizzMe]

Imagine all the things in the universe that we'll never be able to discover because they don't generate any evidence that our 5 senses can detect.

[@KUPHSER]

I’ve thought about this before and compared it with doing dmt. Suddenly you are presented with what seems like a completely different set of realities unknown to what we understand through our human vessel. you experience something beyond what you normally understand being human.

[@srimallya]

Every action we do, we do what is expect from ours tribe. Body might have a opinion, but not the cell. They do what is expected from its tribe. If it doesn’t we call it cancer. The body is a mirror system of the macro organism. Each system have two transactional openings. Serial and parallel. Each cell within the body can transact material or information serially by genetic determinism and parallel non deterministic way. Similarly eact body with in the macro organism can transact serially by inherit material and information in a deterministic manner and parallelly through language in the society. Everything emerges from this systems. Every sensor is a range calculator of contexts. Taste > touch > smell Immediate and visceral. Vision > hearing Not immediate, tactical. Self > language Abstract, strategical. In this non deterministic economic transaction space the individual is coded to transact with its kin. From the macro perspective tribe formation minimises economic risk for the tribes. Each and every node of these systems organise and mark their kin’s with identifier. Thus, i am what you make of me. And others too. For short cut i have a legal name, so you have. My legal name gives the legitimacy marker so that you can transact with me parallelly if you have the same marker. The self is a simulation in language. It negotiates between the physical world and the information world. All these negotiations are the temporal memories in the body and scene of the story. Now, when we started writing we iconised the abstract in the physical world to make symbols for the tribes. So that under that common symbol every node will take the same risk and distribute equally. We created more and more symbols and more and more meta tribes within the tribes so that who has the authority to use the pen control the tribe. When the negotiator act like an executioner then it’s a downfall of that system. It falls apart.

[@MrInsdor]

I'd love for him to describe in his own ways the senses humans don't have at all like perceiving magnetic fields, echolocation, miniscule seismic vibrations etc.

[@gracejinjin]

An Immense World is one of the best books I've read all time. Can't wait for Ed Yong's next book.

[@KittenCasserole]

Very interesting video. Shout out to Ed Yong for his fantastic reporting on ME/CFS and Long COVID

[@mcmacshalfilya]

My sense of sight detects that U are very pretty

[@vitr1916]

I thought about smell and taste sense. I know some sensitive people can smell and taste things differently from most of us. For instance, someone can smell things around where we are standing or walking by, but other can’t smell anything. I use this thinking for applying to dogs as they can smell many things at where we, most of us can’t, but dogs will not react until we give them some things to find. Animals can taste food around them and they know how many gradients are in the food. If the food has more gradients in their normal location, it means that something is happening with their surroundings. It is the same thing for sensitive cookers as they taste foods. Animals has their particular senses better than human because their survival I may guess.

[@Basieeee]

That owl one caught me off guard of course!

[@andreasrylander]

This world and all its life is beyond amazing.

[@invox9490]

What about the Quinesthetic sense? It gives us the position of our body relative to space, with it we sense gravity, acceleration, etc. Some say that fish and other aquatic cretures have this developped to a level they can sense outside themselves because of water pressure and movement.

[@SoulDelSol]

Proprioception

[@monopolybillionaire5027]

As humans we could learn alot from other animal's, they flew and swam before us. They respect there environment, and they'll happily take comfort with other animal's. Our faults come from thinking we are more special and different than our animal cousins. Science is the future, the truth and the only way forward for mankind.

[@demetresimisiroglou9342]

Experience is limited by structure It’s why we’re all different

[@alexallegood1040]

This was so well thought out… thank you!

[@BLUESKY10X]

Excellent Ed, you just missed including bats and sea mamnals fantastic ecolocations

[@brttny]

YESSS ED! love it love it love it. Can't wait to read the book. Ed is the best, I love this topic and would love watch a full length documentary about it, narrated by Ed of course.

[@jenniferbates2811]

I love these kinds of videos!

[@matimus100]

Thats great primate

[@albusdumbledore2310]

Thank you for this video. The examples were carefully selected, and the "voyage" truly poetic

[@bethduffus4598]

Brilliant video Big Think.

[@matimus100]

Primate Primate

[@Psilocybism]

Every species is uniquely equipped and every perssona is unique. This is why saying, animals are dumb is one of the most dumb things to say. We have very high empathy, thats our trait, lets use it. Also a large part of we not able to do those things comes from that we have forgotten to bring the knowledge to use this senses over to the next generations. Our species arogance has brought us sensory darkness. Good thing its written in our DNA, you just need to become aware of your surroundings and train your senses everyday. Ask yourself, how far can my senses reach? Try it everyday for yourself.

[@AsifAAli]

Love this kind of content. It teaches us so much!!!

[@thebrightsideok]

Very cool subject with fantastic wildlife footage!

[@koraptd6085]

Ok now, the fact that owl's ears are asymmetrical is astounding to me. I'm surprised I've never heard about it before

[@n8likesmath]

Amazing nature clips; the quality really stood out. Does big think record all of them?

[@gndp]

- Catfish has tastebuds allover its body - Fly has tastebuds on feet as well as mouth - Jumpy Spiders - 360 vision - Sea urchin - very sentitive hands? - Owl's ears are vertically offset hence, horizontally as well as vertically locate a sounds origin. Allows them to dive into snow and catch mouse. - Abestoss can smell odorscape of sea.. a smell map of the sea - elephants smell underground water

[@yome1562]

Beautiful video. But I'm surprised it was limited to our senses and didn't touch those animals have that we don't. Such as the ability of snakes to scan heat or sharks who "sense electricity".... And regarding vision there is so much more than just the position of the eyes!

[@jeninabuhijelh699]

This deserves many more lives

[@elpitonpistolero1986]

Another fascinating thing to think about is how much of reality are humans actually unaware of because of our inability to sense it

[@jdmj707]

Great video, but too short - I wanted more on this interesting topic!

[@homo-sapiens-dubium]

Side note: 8:10 Empathizing with other beings is an ancient budhist practice, a flavor of meditation. Awesome example of someone (possibly) practicing meditation and sharing their experience of what that can feel.

[@Catlily5]

Mantis Shrimp can see so much more than humans. It is almost unbelievable!

[@nonodaclown9033]

Awesome video mate

[@adinadaniyarkyzy2893]

Amaaaazing!!!!!!!

[@loadright]

Ed wow what a knowledgeable person. Thank You

[@jonathansung8197]

Ed definitely has more hearing perception than we do.

[@visvia7478]

😮 Beautiful Footages

[@somerandomfella]

In my next life make me a Sea Otter. Sea Urchin, Crab & Clam diet yes please!

[@AlmostEthical]

Yes, and organisms of different sizes live in different worlds too

[@simplysunmoon]

We love all of you, beautiful animals of the planet Earth! ❤️☀️🌙

[@matimus100]

Yes primate

[@Paj1v]

I love this. I just bought his book.

[@lumbiniashutoshtambat5871]

Awesome, woke up my senses!

[@anujarora0]

I'm not watching this video today because I am currently reading the book and on chapter 5. I don't want any spoilers. I think I'm gonna watch this video in 2 to 3 days. So far the book is very interesting.

[@ww3032]

This video makes me want to read the book.

[@anujarora0]

@@ww3032 you should it's a great book. I Totally recommend it

[@nickc3657]

I’d like to see more research about the confluence of these “other universes.” Like how does the sharp sight affect the magnetoperception of a raptor bird, and vice versa?

[@kudzaimagigi8467]

Does Ed Yong have a podcast/channel?

[@ww3032]

He's really amazing when he speaks isn't he?

[@kudzaimagigi8467]

@@ww3032 very asmr

[@bigthink]

His website is edyong.me/ . It looks like he has a newsletter and regularly publishes books and articles, but he does not appear to have a podcast or KZbin channel right now.

[@kudzaimagigi8467]

@@bigthink oh cool, thanks.

[@robertferraro236]

I've always said that animals literally have superpowers.

[@muhammadeisa1459]

So do we 😇 we have the ability to sweat which allows us to run for long periods of time, a superpower that helped us when we were hunter gatherers

[@robertferraro236]

@@muhammadeisa1459 Sweating is hardly a superpower compared to the ability of your dog to hear your heartbeat or smell a drop of your sweat in an Olympic pool. That is what you call a superpower. You humans always have to try to one-up the animals. 🙂

[@Squidlark]

0:17 which animal is that?

[@polymathpark]

It's the mantis shrimp!

[@Squidlark]

​@@polymathparkthank you 😊

[@polymathpark]

@@Squidlark you got it! I love these 2 year-delayed responses you find in youtube commments lol xD

[@Squidlark]

@@polymathpark I love them too lol. I was surprised at the notification. My baby brother insists I say hi. He thinks you're very smart.

[@polymathpark]

@@Squidlark Oh awesome, hello!

[@dreadnaught6147]

Fantastic!

[@mayukhpurkayastha2649]

Great information 🇮🇳🇮🇳😍

[@matimus100]

Lower your ego flag will you

[@augusthavince8909]

Maybe people should learn to observe animals (using our sight and reasoning) to understand nature. Linking umwelts. I know we do this in some ways already, but it's mostly to find things.

[@pruthvipalsolanki2465]

Man your English is so good

[@TheQC92]

4:16 “yoink that clam”

[@danielhayes6463]

great video

[@juanzulu1318]

This was very interesting. Thx

[@humanaesthetic]

Good stuff.

[@aLiveanddirect]

well that was amazing.

[@Itamaxification]

Really cool and interesting video!! I have a quick question about the owl's hearing if you don't mind answering. Them having offset ears makes me think that they could know where a sound is coming from in the diagonal plane that connects their ears, but not very well in the perpendicular plane to it. If that's true, how exactly does having offset ears gives them an advantage in mapping a sound in space when they still only have two ears?

[@Creepzza]

Pretty amazing, now let's make sure they don't die out.

[@WSFM_Rex]

Makes you think how this applies to humans

[@killerrabbit4448]

It would be cool to have the ability to change the spectrum in which you see like the predator mask.

[@TrevsTreehouse]

I always thought It would be crazy to have peacock mantis shrimp eyes. They have more cones than us and I'm sure they can probably perceive things slower because how fast they punch.

[@media2638]

I'm looking for a comment about his ears not hearing vertically very well😂

[@iso6203]

0:18 what animal is that?😯

[@PeterZeeke]

"Well he came down to earth and he laid in the tree I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me I heard him say in a voice so gruff "I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough" It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater Sure looks strange to me" - Antlers

[@bruhwassup6781]

beautiful

[@Basinrails]

The thumbnail is so cute

[@bugjams]

Did he purposefully edit his voice to be quieter for the "Hearing" segment so that we'd turn our volume up? Either a stroke of funny coincidence or genius on the editor's part.

[@justintindall9515]

Add to think that this all plays off a continuum that is "so vast" that we will never be able to see the "links" involved?

[@Ratigan2]

We just gonna glide over the fact that he has dog name "Typo"? lol

[@Ashallmusica]

Nature creates such well constructed build in things, and very complex like - higher portion of complexity you can think of....you can't deny nature's force and logical points in everything. You do you die : just as we're doing with Climate change - so it's like visa versa (everything has its equal opposite reaction).

[@Adhil_parammel]

We need all these sence experience,as david eagle man suggested way.

[@RaghavDawar]

Are you saying I've indirectly kissed thousands of bees?

[@kilestewart]

He said “yoink” 😂

[@irtiza_action]

Every single being of this planet is perfectly designed with the 100% capabilities which are needed for that being to live. We can never say that the if the lion has mouth like alligator that would be perfect no. So we all have the abilities which we do not know that we have, how foolish this is to say that we are created by no creator or these abilities are put by our ownsleves in us. We human beings even we donot create things without purpose and we are assuming that this highly perfect system of universe is created for no reason. The only possible and perfect answer is that we do have a creator and we are being watched.

[@nefelibatacomingthrough2707]

"Yoink that clam" +1

[@pathcallahan]

Typo is a great name for a dog.

[@josephkillman5979]

What about the senses that humans don't have? Echo location for example

[@josephkillman5979]

I hope this video covers echolocation by marine animals

[@nosondre]

So, how much energy does it take for me to determine that I am hungry…,much less, I hope, than what it takes to eat something.

[@albyshinyfield8841]

This is too long. I’m glad I watched this sober before adding it to my weed playlist where I would wonder if I’m going crazy for the duration

[@paulcooper8818]

Fun information.

[@victorreis8110]

The misleading thumbnail text begs the question, though! What lies in between these senses; could there be other organs helping animals interpret the world in their own manner?

[@user-xz5ub8tt4j]

This could have been a much deeper expose looking at more puzzling senses - magnetic fields, sonars, frequency ranges, ability to detect radioactivity, humidity, changes in weather patterns, disease, stress, plants ability to adapt and stop growing in certain directions and favor others. I’m downvoting the video because it’s merely scratching the surface of the topic.

[@carlschoener23]

I like Ed Yong very much and what and how he says things, but this ridiculous back ground music made his lecture intolerable.Sorry

[@Alnilum]

neurological network of nature 👁