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Sentient assembles a dangerie of zoological creatures - from land, water, sea and all four corners of the globe - to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered express how we feel and make sense of the world, as well as the told scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. The harlequin mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls but, more importantly, it has the ability to see a vast range of colors. The ears of the great gray owl have such as unparalleled range and sensitivity that they can hear twenty decibels lower than the human ear. The star-nosed mole left fills a human hand, celldom ventures above ground and poses little threats unless you are an earthworm, but its miraculous nose gives it to catch that worms at astonishing speed - as little as one Hundred and twenty milliseconds. Here, too, we meet up the four-eyed spookfish and it's dark vision; the vampire bat and its remarkable powers of touch; the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of scent receptors, as well as the bar-tailed godwit, The common octopus, giant peacocks, cheetahs and golden orb-weaving spiders. Each of these extraordinary creatures illustrates the sensory powers that lie dormant within us. In this captivating book, Jackie Higgins explores this evolutionary heritage and, in performing so, enables us to subconsciously move with the world in ways we never know Details product Paperback Format | 352 pages Dimensions 153 x 234 x 27mm | 420g Publication date Jun 24, 2021 Pan Macmillan Publisher Imprint Picador Publication City/Country London,unit Kingdom Language English Edition Statement Water Envy OME Isbn13 9781529030785