An umwelt (plural: umwelten; from the German Umwelt, meaning "environment" or "surroundings") is the specific way in which organisms of a particular species perceive and experience the world, shaped by the capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems.

Learn about this topic in these articles: …ethologists have adopted the word Umwelt, a German word for environment, to denote an organism’s unique sensory world. The umwelt of a male yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti), for example, differs sharply from that of a human.

2024年9月7日 · Coined by Estonian-German biologist Jakob von Uexküll in the early 20th century and further explored by philosophers like Daniel Dennett, Umwelt offers a profound insight into the subjective universes inhabited by different species.

2023年6月27日 · Definition: The term Umwelt is derived from the German words Um- (“around”) and Welt (“world”), coined by the Baltic German biologist Jakob von Uexküll in the early 20th century. Origin: It refers to the subjective environment within which an organism experiences and interprets stimuli.

Umwelt translate: environment, (social) environment, environment, environmental. Learn more in the Cambridge German-English Dictionary.

Umwelt. In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the "biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal." The term is usually translated as "self-centered world".

4 天之前 · An umbrella term for all the environmental influences shaping an individual's behaviour, or the environment as it is experienced by the individual. The word was introduced in 1909 by the Estonian biologist Jacob Johann von Uexküll (1864–1944) in his book Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere (Environment and Inner World of Animals).