There are animals that can hear sounds in what seems to us like perfect silence, see colors in what looks to us like total darkness, and sense vibrations in what feels to us like complete stillness.

Our world is all a matter of perception. We humans might discern the various colors in a single flower, but the bee harvesting its pollen sees an ultraviolet glow in its center. Learn all about the sensory functions of the animal kingdom in this sweeping, compelling work; from the basic senses we learn about as children to greater mysteries, like the ability to interpret vibrational, electric, or magnetic fields. Learn why "lobster eyes have inspired space telescopes," or how "the ears of a parasitic fly have influenced hearing aids." With more than thirty pages of full-color photography and spellbinding prose, this expansive view of the world we cannot see will dazzle your senses. (RR)