Secret Worlds

Beyond our hearing, rats and mice sing to woo females. Beyond our sight, bees see the ultraviolet markings of flowers. Beyond our conception, sea turtles sense latitude and longitude through an internal magnetic map, and sharks experience the electric fields created by prey. So many animals sense their environment in rich, strange, and often exquisitely refined ways, including ways beyond the limits of our own senses that scientists have only relatively recently identified. In this book, Martin Stevens describes these astonishing worlds of experience hidden from us: what drove their evolution, how scientists learn about them, and the puzzles that remain. Book jacket.