{"id":5903,"date":"2025-08-20T20:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:22:26","slug":"5903-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/5903-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>An Immense World<\/B> by Ed Yong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59575939-an-immense-world\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1652105350l\/59575939._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59575939-an-immense-world\">An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4124738.Ed_Yong\">Ed Yong<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/7846966850\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The subtitle accurately describes the content of the book. It is crammed full of interesting facts about animals, especially about how their senses differ from humans and from other species. I read this because it was assigned reading for a book club. The assignment was only for about half the book, but I read nearly all of it because it was so interesting. I consider myself something of a science fan\/nerd, but not so much in the biological sciences. So I was surprised that almost everything in the book was new to me, which, of course made it much more interesting than I expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle accurately describes the content of the book. It is crammed full of interesting facts about animals, especially about how their senses differ from humans and from other species. 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