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What is an umwelt?
What is an umwelt?
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My umwelt is the part of the world that
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I can perceive. It is that unique blend
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of sights and smells and textures and
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sounds that I have access to. And the
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the crucial thing here is that it's
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going to be totally different if I was
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another animal or if I was another
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individual. So if we had a bar-tailed
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godwit here sitting in my lap, its
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umwelt would be radically different from
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mine. It would be able to sense the
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earth's magnetic field. I can't do that.
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It would see colors that I can't sense.
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It would probably smell things that I
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can't sense. It would feel the air
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currents around the room in a way that I
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can't feel. Um
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and [music] even though we share the
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same physical space, we would have a
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very different experience of that space.
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Um and that's what the umwelt concept
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is. I happen to think it's one of the
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most delightful concepts in biology
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>> [music]
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>> because it hints that, you know, even in
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these places that we feel like we
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understand,
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um
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>> [music]
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>> we're really only getting this tiny
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fraction of all there is to get. [music]
