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9 articles tagged with “Through Animal Eyes”
May 21, 2026
How the Star-Nosed Mole "Sees" by Touch
The star-nosed mole perceives the world through 22 tentacles and 25,000 touch receptors — the fastest forager on Earth, and it can even smell underwater.
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Apr 28, 2026
How Elephants Hear With Their Feet
Elephants speak in infrasound too deep for us to hear and "listen" to the ground through their feet — sensing distant herds, storms, and danger across kilometres.
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Apr 21, 2026
The Ultraviolet World Birds See
Birds are tetrachromats that see ultraviolet — a fourth colour we can’t. Discover the hidden feather signals, UV flowers, and prey trails birds perceive.
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Mar 26, 2026
How Sharks Sense Electricity
Sharks have a sixth sense — electroreception. Through the ampullae of Lorenzini they feel the faint electric fields of living prey, even a fish buried in sand.
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Mar 9, 2026
How Snakes "See" Heat
Some snakes have a sixth sense — infrared "heat vision" through facial pits that lets them see warm prey glowing in total darkness. Here’s how it works.
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Feb 28, 2026
How Bats See With Sound
In total darkness, bats build a 3D picture of the world from echoes. Inside echolocation — the feeding buzz, reading an echo, and the arms race with moths.
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Feb 12, 2026
How Dogs Smell the World
Step inside a dog’s nose — 300 million scent receptors, smelling in stereo, a second "nose" for pheromones, and the uncanny ability to smell the passage of time.
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Jan 28, 2026
How Mantis Shrimp See
Mantis shrimp have the most complex eyes on Earth — up to 16 photoreceptors, independent swivelling eyes, single-eye depth, and the only known vision of circularly polarized light.
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Jan 15, 2026
How Cats See the World
Step inside a cat’s senses — night vision six times sharper than ours, muted colours, motion-tuned eyes, slit pupils and whiskers that "feel" the dark.
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