An Immense World

Basically an animals documentary in book form. Focuses on interesting examples of extreme versions of many different animal senses including sonar and electric. Overall concept is that different animals experience reality in different ways in proportion to the senses they fuse together to create their sense of awareness, which at the end enables them to direct their consciousness towards sustenance, safety, procreation, etc. The book encourages us to stretch the bounds our own human empathy to imagine stepping into the body of an animal with different senses and priorities. Also discusses impact of human produced sensory pollution such as cargo ship motors.

Writing-wise: captivating for the most part and very clearly explained. But also repeats itself a lot, gets lost in minute details often, and on the whole was longer than it should have been; found myself bored and skimming past a couple parts.