Written by a Pulitzer Award-winning author, the reader is invited into a world, as perceived by animal senses, that is filled with wonder. We are asked to imagine a school gymnasium where an elephant,  mouse, a robin, owl, bat, mosquito, rattlesnake, a bumblebee, among other creatures that include a woman by the name of Rebecca. How might this “imaginary menagerie” perceive the other? Each creature has a “sensory bubble”. Using the sense of smell, the elephant would not smell anything, but the rattle snake would smell the trail of the mouse and the mosquito could “smell” an alluring CO2 on Rebecca’s breath and skin. The robin can feel the magnetic field of the earth and guided by an internal compass can escape the gym through an open window…and so on. For Yong, animals are not machines but rather “sentient entities” and the inner world of humans is not to be exalted over that of other species. Several years ago the philosopher Thomas Nagel asked the question, “What is it like to be a bat?” Nagel points to the obvious that in answering this the human is restricted to the resources of the mind. These resources include vision and language. Yong then takes us on a marvellous tour of the animal senses through light and the endless ways of seeing, colour, pain heat, vibrations, sound, echoes, electric fields (350 species of fish can produce their own electricity), and on to magnetic fields. We are reminded of the ways that by gaining knowledge of this world, humans have remolded it. While we can measure the distance that the sound of a blue whale can travel, humans have defiled the waters that they inhabit even if there remain signs of hope for the natural world. Through curiosity and imagination, we can step into the world of nature realizing that this “choice is a gift” and not a “blessing we have earned”. This sense of wonder is the closest that Yong ventures to viewing what surrounds us as Creation.