书籍介绍
我们以为世界就是眼前这般模样，但这本书告诉你：每个物种都活在自己专属的感知气泡里，人类所见的，不过是这庞大世界的极小一角。作者以记者式的清晰笔触，带我们走进甲虫扑火、海龟磁导航、电鱼以电流交谈、鳄鱼用鳞脸感知世界的奇异图景——这些并非猎奇罗列，而是为了揭示一个核心洞见：我们的感官边界，恰恰是我们理解其他生命的牢笼。书中反复叩问：被我们忽视的平凡荒野，是否就缺乏值得敬畏的价值？当读者合上书页，真正留下的或许不是那些令人叫绝的知识，而是一份谦卑——意识到“去了解和感受”是何等奢侈而艰难的事，以及我们或许有权重新定义何为值得珍惜的自然。
作者简介
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and more. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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用户评论
大开眼界！写得真好！
打开新世界的大门，让我们知道动物我们可以理解，但是又没有那么容易理解。毕竟，我们人类自己都不理解自己。
“Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of reality’s fullness. Each is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny silver of an immense world.”
真的是不看不知道，万物真奇妙！推荐所有的人都看看这本书，珍爱动物，就是珍爱我们自己！
动物世界的广阔太值得人类珍惜 读完蝙蝠成了心中技能趣味点榜首 书中描绘了各式感官知觉的万千形态 深觉不能以人类中心视角认知自然 希望正如结尾所提 和谐宜居的生态环境不再限于渺远地貌 而是植根源发于我们的日常生活
开阔眼界。不要人类中心主义。如果图片表格多一点就更好了。
科学版《神奇的动物在哪里》，就像一部十三集的自然纪录片那么清晰生动又深入浅出。作者文笔真好，尤其擅于比喻，才能生动又真切地描摹出那些无形无声的感知体验，真是脑洞大开。最后有句话令我印象深刻：我们虽然尚无法体会作为蝙蝠的感觉，但好奇心与想象力会带来更多可能。
書中内容的研究非常周全，可讀性也強。人類是應該把眼光放得寬一些。
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