I would vote for raptors (eagles, kytes, hawks etc) because they can spot their prey from way high up in the air – imagine flying high and spotting the smallest mouse movement in the grass!
Also, you know how when you’re under water and you look up, and refraction of light causes things to appear like they are in a different spot? slightly shifted? well there are some fish who have special lenses in their eyes that can account for this refraction so they can accurately target bugs as food in the air! pretty cool 🙂
I never knew about those fish — pretty cool indeed!
The humble goldfish also has seeing ability that most other animals don’t have: they can see in the infra-red (IR) and the ultraviolet (UV) parts of the light spectrum. (IR is light that’s redder than red so people can’t see it, and UV is light that’s bluer than blue — the same UV that comes through the ozone layer from the sun and causes skin cancer.)
Hi fordy388
I would vote for raptors (eagles, kytes, hawks etc) because they can spot their prey from way high up in the air – imagine flying high and spotting the smallest mouse movement in the grass!
Also, you know how when you’re under water and you look up, and refraction of light causes things to appear like they are in a different spot? slightly shifted? well there are some fish who have special lenses in their eyes that can account for this refraction so they can accurately target bugs as food in the air! pretty cool 🙂
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Hi fordy288 and Kate,
I never knew about those fish — pretty cool indeed!
The humble goldfish also has seeing ability that most other animals don’t have: they can see in the infra-red (IR) and the ultraviolet (UV) parts of the light spectrum. (IR is light that’s redder than red so people can’t see it, and UV is light that’s bluer than blue — the same UV that comes through the ozone layer from the sun and causes skin cancer.)
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