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Colleague of mine was working on research of vision system of a spitting fish. The fish hunts by spitting water at insects sitting on the leaves above the water
by helge9210 6y ago
Colleague of mine was working on research of vision system of a spitting fish. The fish hunts by spitting water at insects sitting on the leaves above the water surface. What they found out that "firing solution" is formed in the retina and passed to the brain to initiate the spit.
- techbio 6y agoFascinating. Any details available on this?
- helge9210 6y agoThey had publications on this, but I can't find it now.
- shatnersbassoon 6y agoI'd be interested to see if the LGN of the turtle is performing distinct functions to those of mammals. LGN is a super interesting component of the visual system - e.g. iirc people with dyslexia have morphologically distinct LGNs.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoAmazing. Since they hunt in a school they need to predict where the prey will fall due to competition. The fish will initiate a swim maneuver after observing the first 75ms of the ballistic path of the prey as it falls. https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ben-shahar/Publications/2018-Ben_Tov_Ben_Shahar_and_Segev-What_a_Predator_Can_Teach_Us_About_Visual_Processing_a_Lesson_from_the_Archerfish.pdf https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ben-shahar/Publications/2018-Ben_T...
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