Now in store! Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Human Senses by Jackie Higgins

This fascinating book takes us deep into the world of animals and demonstrates what their extraordinary abilities can mean for our own understanding of human senses. Over 12 chapters highlighting different animals and senses, Jackie Higgins delivers popular science with a sense of wonder that will open your eyes to how we interact with the animal kingdom and experience the world.

Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Human Senses by Jackie Higgins 

Paperback £9.99

Blurb:

The peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls. The great grey owl can hear many decibels lower than the human ear. The star-nosed mole's miraculous nose allows it to catch worms in as little as 120 milliseconds.

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. In it, 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.

Reviews:

‘Higgins makes popular science accessible.' - Observer

'Spellbinding… More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' - Financial Times

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