Table of Contents

Preface
1: A Plethora of Senses
2: Singing Mice and Painting Pictures with Sound
3: For My Eyes Only
4: Electric Attraction
5: Stars of the Tactile World
6: Smelling in Stereo
7: Homing Turtles and Animal Magnetism
8: A Changing World

About the Author

Martin Stevens is Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Exeter. His research has covered a wide range of areas, but much of his current work explores how animals change colour for camouflage, and how human impacts on the environment are affecting animal coloration and vision. He has authored over 120 scientific papers, two textbooks, and a popular science book on deception in nature Cheats and Deceits, (Oxford University Press,
2016). Stevens' work is frequently covered in the popular media, including by the New Scientist and the New York Times. He has appeared several times on radio and TV, such as on the BBC and on National
Geographic, and has given a range of public lectures around the world.

Reviews

a riveting new volume that explores the extraordinary senses of animals....This volume brings the wonders of these sensory worlds to a more general audience.
*Michael J. Ryan, Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol.97, no.1*

While paying its dues to those amazing abilities of animals, Secret Worlds has some very intriguing things to say about the evolution and plasticity of the sense - and above all, the cost of acquiring them. [... ] One can only hope that Stevens will return with fresh insights in a few years.
*Simon Ings, New Scientist*

The book is easy to read, engaging and packed with new insights, even for those of us who have been in the field for some time. I highly recommend it for everyone interested in animal behaviour and how other creatures than us perceive the world.
*Ulrika Candolina, Springer*