Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their five senses to survive. Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their senses of touch, hearing, sight, and smell to ...

ECHOLOCATING bats use ultrasound to map out their surroundings at night. That information is fine-grained, helping them distinguish between the wing cases and body of a beetle and the wings of a moth.

In today’s busy world, we often forget how incredible the animal kingdom really is. Over millions of years, animals have evolved unique abilities that go far beyond what humans can do. While we rely ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when we’re a mile away from home) and an unbelievable sense of smell. But they ...

Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its face. Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) ...

Sharks can’t actually smell blood from a mile away. But they do have two more senses than humans, and their sense of detection is legendary. May 27, 2022 The following is an excerpt from Why Sharks ...

Source: linascheel, Pixabay, free download. Sentience, the ability to feel, is all around us, and almost daily we learn of the amazing sensory capacities of nonhuman animals (animals), many of whom ...

Dogs do see color. Naked mole rats are oblivious to pain. The first insects couldn’t hear a thing, instead relying on small organs in their joints to sense things moving around them. I spoke with Yong ...

I'm always in the market for books and essays that explain how diverse nonhuman animals (animals) live in our world and in their own. I recently read an outstanding and highly readable book by ...