Thoughts on Uxekull and Timbuktu

After reading Uxekull's essay Umwelten about how the reality of different creatures may be completely different, it became easier for me to notice how the writer of Timbuktu took into account how the reality of Mr. Bones was thoroughly considered. Such as how we look down upon creatures for not appreciating or being able to understand 'art' and yet their art may be entirely different from ours and it may in fact be them pitying us for our inability to see art the way they do. When different things are important to different creatures, such as smells to dogs, blood to mosquitoes, migration for whales, those things take precedence and that becomes our reality. I suppose that creates extremely different worlds. I think the difference between humans and animals is that we have the ability to find interest in so many different things and go down so many different roads that may or may not converge or overlap with other interests and its created an extremely diverse environment and ecosystem for us. Whereas for animals, they APPEAR mostly single-minded and focused on a limited number of things that makes their reality APPEAR so simple from a human perspective. I found the idea of a Symphony of Sounds really interesting. I feel that of all the five human senses, our sense of smell has been the one most overlooked or ignored due to our poor ability to smell. Yet having an advanced sense of smell could really open up an entirely new dimension to our world. Imagine being able to recognize people not by sight by scent, knowing their moods, desires and whereabouts. Theres been many times when I walked dogs, both my own and the ones at the PSCPA that I thought that if I could read the mind of this dog as it madly sniffs the ground, I would be thoroughly amused. The book "Timbuktu" reminds me a lot of the book "The Art of Racing in the Rain" which follows the birth and death of a dog and the life of the family he lives with. It's one of my favorite books ever because it's beautifully written and a lot of the behaviors and thoughts of the Mr. Bones was similar to the dog Ezo in the "The Art of Racing in the Rain". I think that would've been a fantastic book to include in this book.