The hidden world of animal senses

The hidden world of animal senses - with Ed Yong

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Join acclaimed science journalist Ed Yong as he explores the world as it is truly perceived by other animals, from sniffing dogs to echolocating bats. Watch the Q&A here: • Q&A: The hidden world ...
Ed's book "An Immense World: A journey through the animal kingdom's extraordinary senses" is available to purchase now: geni.us/y4xvTO
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.
In this talk, discover the hidden signals that fill the air around us, the plants in our gardens, and the streets beneath our feet.
This talk was filmed on 30 Jun 2022.
0:00 Introduction
0:34 The power of dogs' olfactory system
4:34 The sensory bubbles of different species
7:43 Non-human senses
9:36 Echolocation in bats and dolphins
15:06 Mysteries of familiar senses
18:06 Diversity in the animal kingdom
18:45 Why does a scallop need hundreds of eyes?
21:20 What do other animals see?
30:01 Learning new sides to animals
32:06 Animals show us new ways to think about the world
38:21 Understanding our responsibilities to the planet
42:42 The uniquely human sense
Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic. He is based in Washington, DC. For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism; the George Polk Award for science reporting; the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism; the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers' Association; and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting.
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@yuu_megumi Жыл бұрын

What an absolutely wonderful lecture! I hope we can have more Ri talks with Ed Yong; he speaks really well, explains things very clearly and has such a fascination for the subject that he brings his audience to experience this same excitement and wonder towards the world.

@anujarora0 Жыл бұрын

I read this book a month ago and since then I've been waiting for this lecture and finally it's here.

@4321sssssss Жыл бұрын

mesmerizing talk - man we truly are the most gifted generation to be able to listen to such high quality information for zero $s. Thanks Ed for the talk. Love it.

@geordiedog1749 Жыл бұрын

My greyhound sniffs Everything on her walks. This is called a ‘Sniffari walk’.

@johnpossum556 Жыл бұрын

I call them Smell-a-thons. 😂

@dukeallen432 Жыл бұрын

Reading the newspaper.

@radientbeing Жыл бұрын

As a physicist/mathematician I have a practice I call "bio-imagination", which I use along with science data/facts to attempt to subjectively feel/sense what its like to be in the body of, insects, mammals, reptiles, fish, spiders, birds, jelly fish, etc., etc,. I have been doing this daily for quite some time and the practice has greatly expanded my connection with all life forms and nature. I am currently reading and enjoying "An Immense World".

@TheChris403 2 ай бұрын

I heard Ed gives this exact same speech last night in Sarasota, Florida. If anything, he's improved it since then. Fascinating speaker and writer.

@nellwhiteside3042 Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Thank you. Anthropocentrism stops us from really trying to understand and empathize with the creatures around us.

@adhipmitra Жыл бұрын

Nothing short of brilliance. Enlightening.

@elenaechevarria Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ed, that was wonderful! Always enjoyed reading your articles about animals on The Atlantic.

@ajmooretap Жыл бұрын

This was beautiful :)

@minwall9924 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyable talk, thank you

@Streetsy Жыл бұрын

Thankyou. Great talk. 😃

@helenew3671 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating !Thankyou this was brilliant to watch

@vmb326 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ed - really enjoyed your presentation!

@riverbender9898 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thank You.

@hamjudo Жыл бұрын

A bluejay was demonstrating a variety of song bird imitations to a friend. It would alternate between an imitation, and the stereotypical bluejay squawks. The other bluejay responded to each squawk with a squawk of their own. All of the squawks sounded identical to me, but they obviously carried information between the jays. I want to know what they were saying. I heard that bluejay practicing its impersonations the day before, but there wasn't another one providing feedback. It was out of sight in a tree so at the time I didn't know what animal was making the weird bird noises. A pair of red tailed hawks live nearby. Bluejays routinely imitate the hawk call to scare other birds away from food that they want to steal. The bluejays swoop out of their hiding place when the other birds fly away in panic. I can't imagine how the jay is planning to use its new sound effects.

@scrubjay93 Жыл бұрын

Crows, jays, ravens, magpies are all excellent mimics! My ornithology professor had a magpie that learned words very fast. He could fly free outside during the day. One week I was taking care of him and the other pets. The first thing the magpie did was grab the house keys off the table and fly out into the trees with them. At least they weren't my car keys! 😂

@fmapls Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great lecture.

@manutara2007 Жыл бұрын

Such and interesting Lecture...and the final reflection is 👌🏼

@hrdowns9464 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating lecture.🙏🏽👏🏽👌🏽

@pacingBlue Жыл бұрын

Fascinating!

@Misty16Haze Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very interesting!!👍🏻

@yutinghsieh8046 16 күн бұрын

Fantastic!

@agpc0529 Жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed when I walk my dog that he will anchor himself at certain spots to sniff around for a minute. He is only 20 pounds but if I’m not paying attention it jerks my arm back. I let him smell around because clearly that are a is important to him lol.

@martinlee6694 Жыл бұрын

I learn alot, really good .🙂

@spiralsun1 Жыл бұрын

Humans also have vast differences in the meaning they see in the world. What things are and the relationships between them. It’s different levels of seeing things like other, self, and world. It’s important because It is the reason for all wars and atrocities. But it’s also why we can build huge civilizations. The highest level is the unity of all things, and brings peace. It’s worth understanding that. This talk helps immensely by analogy ❤️‍🔥🙏🏻 Also, I love jumping spiders. They are cute as anything 😊 Also the tree-hoppers who thump on things to communicate 🥰

@radientbeing Жыл бұрын

@raoren1108 9 ай бұрын

Just read the book. It's really wonderful. Thanks to it, I love animals more, and even the rat I hate the most doesn't look that ugly and gross for me.

@skicrz Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating. I have a new appreciation for species differences in the experience of the world we share.

@NA-mg2eb Жыл бұрын

Regarding the bugs tasting food with their feet, what differentiates a taste receptor from a smell receptor in this context? They're both chemoreceptors

@abinavsriram Жыл бұрын

Most animal senses are amazing we can use them as iot sensors they are just beautiful

@erichodge567 Жыл бұрын

For the life of me I cannot understand why so many people in this comment thread care so much that this gentleman is wearing a mask. All I heard two years ago was "my face, my choice". Now it seems that what many people really want to do is to control what others do, as usual.

@lorezampadeferro8641 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your Hypocricy ❤️

@erichodge567 Жыл бұрын

@@lorezampadeferro8641 , I'll thank you if next time you can spell "hypocrisy" correctly.

@lorezampadeferro8641 Жыл бұрын

@@erichodge567 thanks a lot ❤️

@NA-mg2eb Жыл бұрын

I wonder if that spider with the specialized eyes experiences the inputs from both sets of eyes as a single sense, or if it's like how we experience taste and smell as different senses even though they're both chemoreception

@WetDoggo Жыл бұрын

snakes sense the heat in a left right center fashion a little bit of up and down... they mostly just try centering in on higher heat concentration

@ForNika Жыл бұрын

Ed Yong is the next Sir David Attenborough. He should join Professor Jim Al Khalili and do a talk on Quantum Biology which explains these animal senses.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

Professor JohnJoe McFadden cowrote "Life on the Edge," the quantum biology book, cowriten by Jim Al Khalili. McFadden has youtube talks also. Actually McFadden had an earlier quantum biology book also.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

sitting next to a tree hopper without knowing it? I caught them by hand since they were eating my newly planted chestnut trees.

@gregor-samsa Жыл бұрын

Human "Brain" is a sense in itself as it is only a consulting thing on the brainstem (Stammhirn) like any other sense. The dimension and disciplins it consults in, are manigfold. It could be memory - as somenone laid it down in another comment- could be understanding long sentences, as I laid down in my comment to this memory- comment or it could be "deep thought" and consultation. Could as well be association as I do in writing this here. It is a swiss-pocket-knife tool-sense a little like eyes or like Math is such a tool in science. Many people doing AI and reducing it to ML have not understood this concept.

@robert7645 Жыл бұрын

I think this is interesting, because throughout the talk I was thinking we have an idea of the behavior of other people. We cannot read their minds but interpret the state of their minds from their behavior. This is the whole "theory of mind" thing in autism research. This is a sense because it adds meaning to the behavior.

@pat8988 Жыл бұрын

RI, bees did not come before flowers. 37:45. A simple internet search would show that.

@gregor-samsa Жыл бұрын

Its called co-evolution. E.g. apple trees with bigger appels evolved from bears who were eating bigger apples for ages:-)

@gregor-samsa Жыл бұрын

Germany here. Better translation of this Umwelt thing is maybe "ambient".

@robincross4625 Жыл бұрын

I gave it some thought awhile ago. The brain of a dog probably has as much processing power as that of a human,. The part of our brain devoted to color has shifted in a dog to smells. I conjure up the picture in my mind of a dog sniffing and seeing the clouds of aromas that are all around us that humans cannot sense in any way.

@bnkakl Жыл бұрын

this is such a brilliant talk! got to learn and be aware about a lot of thing!

@ultraviolet.catastrophe Жыл бұрын

*sniff sniff*

@jopmens6960 Жыл бұрын

Typo is smelling how critics marked the stack of books?

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

it was probably staged with a hidden Typo Treat.

@Lord_Baphomet_ Жыл бұрын

Well if you think about it if animals had super senses it would be extremely overstimulating… I think about Superman’s super hearing… he can hear everything that is happening hundreds if not thousands of miles away… no wonder he likes to sleep in space… think about the nightmare of trying to sleep in the city with super hearing… every car, every train, every plane, and so on…

@ABrit-bt6ce Жыл бұрын

Doggy is cute. No eat ;)

@rogerc7960 Жыл бұрын

🛰e2v chip=fish retina

@homemdoespacobr Жыл бұрын

why the guy is wearing a mask if he is isolated on stage?

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

He did a lot of science reporting on the pandemic so he knows the science better than most.

@bryan__m Жыл бұрын

He's not isolated, there was an audience.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

@@bryan__m they can't respond - I saw the person listed on the "SorryAntiVaxxer" site.

@katieyiu Жыл бұрын

Hate French 9

@iamthepinknarwhal Жыл бұрын

Your comment is actually distracting

@makzmakz Жыл бұрын

The mask is distracting.

@merrickhurst4150 Жыл бұрын

Lmao, how have you survived this long?

@Ethan7s Жыл бұрын

@@merrickhurst4150 probably by being in the healthiest 99.998% of the population.

@merrickhurst4150 Жыл бұрын

@@Ethan7s sounds like they would have accidentally walked into traffic by now. Still time i suppose

@Ethan7s Жыл бұрын

@@merrickhurst4150 Wishing strangers would get hit by oncoming traffic, definitely the compassionate and inclusive type.

@adenfayt5433 Жыл бұрын

Really? The mask is distracting in a science lecture? Are you okay?

@mariusvanc Жыл бұрын

Speaking of senses, what's up with the mask?

@Power_to_the_people567 Жыл бұрын

Well the mask can have many usefull functions. Like prevent the spread of airborne viruses and bacteria.

@pmboston Жыл бұрын

Seriously? And you’re here in the lecture hall of the royal institute? It’s a sign of his responsible concern for the health of his audience, pure and simple.

@Ethan7s Жыл бұрын

It’s for another unique human perception, virtue signaling.

@pmboston Жыл бұрын

@@Ethan7s only if you like to look for ulterior motives in everything you see other people do. Pandemics respond to masking. Which is done by the intelligent, who often are more virtuous as well. Maybe that’s what confuses some people.

@Ethan7s Жыл бұрын

@@pmboston So you disagree with Joe Biden, when he said the pandemic is over several weeks ago?

@lorezampadeferro8641 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your virtue signalling mask ❤️

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

He's a well-known journalist on the pandemic. So he knows the science too well.

@whirledpeas3477 Жыл бұрын

Late 2022 and wearing a mask 😷?

@anarcho.pacifist Жыл бұрын

I always wear a mask. I even sleep with a mask on. I'm quite sad that the daddy government didn't tell me to wear one before 2020. How could they keep the secret away from us? The mask it's the reason why we're all alive today!

@iteerrex8166 Жыл бұрын

@@anarcho.pacifist I even shower with it.

@robertnagy985 Жыл бұрын

👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

@jimsullivanyoutube Жыл бұрын

Why are you wearing a mask? Are you going to operate on something? Do you like re- breathing your own exhaust?

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

He's a well-known science journalist on the pandemic so he must know the science better than you.

@jimsullivanyoutube Жыл бұрын

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 or he's bought and paid for. 🤔 💰

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

@@jimsullivanyoutube I use Sci-hub to read science for free - that is otherwise behind paywall. The lady who created the Sci-Hub website has to be in hiding so you are free to be willfully ignorant.

@dukeallen432 Жыл бұрын

Great fun and info. The mask, come on. Enough at this point. I wore one, got shots but the real risk, now. Getting bitten by the dog and dying from rabies higher likelihood.

@anarcho.pacifist Жыл бұрын

You've been a good boy. Your daddy government is proud. Keep believing what the government tells you and keep obeying. It's a bit too late to disobey now.

@kwisclubta7175 Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad Ed here is wearing a mask to protect not only the audience members sitting 30 ft away, but also us watching at home on KZfaq. You're really making a difference, Ed. May we never see a human face again.

@dukeallen432 Жыл бұрын

Bull. Enough. He’s young and is at NO risk. Compared to driving a car.

@dukeallen432 Жыл бұрын

If there are folks in audience that are at risk, wear mask or stay home. Driving way more dangerous.

@iteerrex8166 Жыл бұрын

Pushing the per.papa.Gundi of those who pay his paycheck.

@gregor-samsa Жыл бұрын

What a nonsense, ignorant comment!

@bryan__m Жыл бұрын

@@dukeallen432 erm so if wearing a mask is a perfectly acceptable option to you for the audience, then what's wrong with him wearing one?