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Aldo Leopold wrote, “The penalty of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen.” An education in #sensory #biology is the awareness that much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to humans.

buff.lyBeyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory PollutionWe must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.

Rewilding Institute

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Biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll coined the term #Umwelt to refer to the environment as it is experienced by a given organism, via the information available to that organism’s senses. Our human Umwelten do not necessarily represent the world as other animals perceive it.

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Rewilding Institute

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21 Sept

Indeed, we completely lack certain senses found in many other species. Unfortunately, #conservation has yet to catch up with the science of sensory biology.