Weird ways that animals experience the world differently to us

The following is a transcript from New Scientist’s CultureLab podcast. Subscribe and listen for free here.

Christie Taylor: Science journalist Ed Yong is the author of An Immense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden world around us. It’s just out in paperback, after being published last year. And it’s the story of over a hundred different species from around the world, and how they see, smell, hear and even detect electricity or heat in ways we can’t even begin to match. 

You meet beetles that fly hundreds of miles to the heat of distant …