--- title: Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every animal's senses fit the way it lives: a hunter needs to find its food, and the hunted need to notice danger in time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Senses of animals: how they see, hear… # Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell Lesson 79 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/79-senses-of-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/0/) — Every animal's senses fit the way it lives: a hunter needs to find its food, and the hunted need to notice danger in time. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/1/) — Eyes at the front of the head, like an owl's or a cat's, both look at the same thing and judge distance well for catching prey; eyes at the sides, like a rabbit's or a horse's, see almost all the way around to spot enemies. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/2/) — Some animals sense things we cannot: bees see ultraviolet patterns on flowers, bats hear very high sounds, and dogs smell scents thousands of times weaker than we can. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/3/) — Bats and dolphins use echoes: they make a sound, listen for it to bounce back, and work out where things are, even in complete darkness or murky water. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/4/) — A shark can smell a tiny trace of blood in the water from far away, and it also feels the weak electricity made by the muscles of fish hiding in the sand. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/5/) — Animals with eyes on the front of the head judge distance well. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/6/) — Animals with eyes on the sides of the head can see almost all around them. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/7/) — Most hunters have eyes at the front, and most hunted animals have eyes at the sides. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/8/) — Bees can see ultraviolet light, which people cannot see; many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide bees to the nectar. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/9/) — Bats find insects in the dark by making high sounds and listening to the echoes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/10/) — Dolphins also find food by using echoes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/11/) — A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times better than a person's. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/12/) — Snakes smell by flicking their tongue to pick up scents from the air. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/13/) — Cats see much better than people in dim light, but they cannot see in total darkness. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/14/) — Some snakes, such as rattlesnakes, can sense the heat given off by warm animals. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/15/) — Sharks can sense the weak electricity made by living animals. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/16/) — Owls hear so well that they can catch a mouse they cannot see. - ← previous: [Dinosaurs and life long ago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/) - next →: [Farms and where our food comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)