Your dog knows way more about your intimate business than you’d be comfortable with. Today’s episode is about the scientific concept of the umwelt, which is the perspective that different animals have on the world, and how this is influenced by different sensory abilities. I think imagining animals realities is a fun and humbling way of understanding just how limited our perception of reality really is.

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