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    Mantis shrimp eyes move independently and are considered the most complex in the animal kingdom. We humans have 3 photoreceptors, these little aliens have up to 16, letting them see UV, visible and even polarized light.

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    1. Mubadger on

      The eyesight of Mantis Shrimp was actually a plot point in the book Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    4. zeusht on

      +Not only are their eyes incredible, but their punch is one of the fastest movements in the animal kingdom (around 50 mph). The strike is so fast that it boils the water around the claw, creating cavitation bubbles. When these bubbles collapse, they produce a tiny flash of light and heat reaching temperatures nearly as hot as the surface of the sun!

    5. LeoLaDawg on

      I know what polarization of light is and how that appears but what does “polarized light” look like? What is that trying to say?

    6. DasScoot on

      It should be noted that when people talk about some animals having huge numbers of photoreceptors, that’s usually because their brains can’t interpret color mixtures. The sixteen colors they have receptors for are the only colors they can see.

    9. Bad-Star on

      Unfortunatly, their braisn are so small that they can’t even process all of the information their eyes are sending to them.

    10. jamglow on

      I would love to see a visual representation of what they see.

      Rumour has it, though, that they still can’t find stuff in the fridge when their wife asks for it.

    11. davewave3283 on

      I was diving off the coast of Honduras and happened upon a peacock mantis shrimp outside of its hole. It looked up at me and I swear I could see it thinking “oh shit”.

    17. giraffemoo on

      I had a mantis shrimp as a pet once, accidentally. How was it accidental? We had a saltwater fish tank, my mom would go to local beaches and bring home rocks to put in her tanks. There was a mantis shrimp living in one of those rocks, it wasn’t colorful like this guy but all grey. This was before you could just look this stuff up on the internet, we had no idea what it was for a while and just called it “the monster”. We had to put it in it’s own tank because it ate several expensive fish before we figured out what it was doing.

    19. failureagainandagain on

      The boubles that forms when they punch stuff

      Are hotter that the surface of the fucking sun

      For just 2 seconds yes , but 2 seconds on the sun will kill pretty much everyone and everything so take that how you want

    25. Dizzy_Restaurant3874 on

      “No one knows what it’s like to be the bad shrimp, to be the sad shrimp, behind blue eyes.”

    26. lovememaddly on

      What exactly can the see with UV light? And what benefits come from seeing polarized light?

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