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9 Ways Animals See The World Differently

Did you know that the way animals see the world is often completely different than how humans see it? In this episode of SciShow we’ll show you 9 different ways that animals have evolved their eyesight to help them see!

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Sources:
General:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Animal_Eyes.html?id=g0vfcKInOIIC

Mantis shrimp

http://www.nature.com/news/mantis-shrimp-s-super-colour-vision-debunked-1.14578
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/411

Bees

http://people.bu.edu/primack/UltravioletPatterns.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11971274
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16983115

Snakes

http://200.46.218.171/bds-cbc/sites/default/files/Infrared%20organs%20of%20snakes-%20an%20integral%20part%20of%20vision_1.pdf
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100314/full/news.2010.122.html

Night vision

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150219-the-worlds-most-sensitive-eyes
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/23/4111

Polarization:

http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/4/549.full

Vertical pupils:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982206011961

Four-eyed fish:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2011.00701.x/abstract
http://www.fasebj.org/content/17/14/1996.full

Flies:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-camera-looks-at-the-world-through-an-insects-eyes-48582355/?no-ist
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ento.46.1.471

Chiton:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110414-eyes-rock-crystal-mineral-chiton-mollusk-vision-animals-science/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211003058
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26586760

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