An Immense World [electronic resource] : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Yong, Ed2022
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Humans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with biological vision as we currently understand it. They have evolved to track movement with an acuity no other species can match by processing raw information; they may not 'see', in the human sense, at all.Marine molluscs called chitons have eyes which are made of stone. Scorpions appear to see with their entire bodies. It isn't only vision that differs from species to species - some animals also have senses we lack entirely. Knifefish navigate by electrical charge.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Vintage Digital, 2022
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
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9781529191585
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English
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1119759