Quotes About Umwelt

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

Stimuli...are given to neural elaboration and translated into a linguistic system of the nervous system. Between the exterior world and the living organism, there is an insertion of a whole that orders, coordinates, and interprets: the nervous system is a mirror of the world...The higher animal thus constructs an Umwelt that has a Gegenwelt, a rejoinder in its nervous system.