Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses

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In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human. „Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.“ – Financial Times Best Books of the Year <ul><li>The peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls;</li><li>The great grey owl can hear many decibels lower than the human ear;</li><li>The star-nosed mole’s miraculous nose allows it to catch worms in as little as 120 milliseconds.</li></ul> In Sentient we also meet the four-eyed spookfish and its dark vision, the vampire bat and its remarkable powers of touch, as well as the common octopus, the Goliath catfish and the duck-billed platypus. Each zoological marvel illustrates the surprising sensory powers that lie within us and enables us to engage with the world in ways we never knew possible.

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