Mantis shrimp eyes, it turns out, aren't as extraordinary as you might think. Yes, they have twelve different color receptors... which means they can see twelve

Mantis shrimp eyes, it turns out, aren't as extraordinary as you might think. Yes, they have twelve different color receptors... which means they can see twelve different colors. Near as I can tell they can't integrate all the input from their compound eyes into a single, cohesive image. Rather, different sections of their visual system are tied directly to ganglia that recognize features or movement characteristic of predators, prey, or other mantis shrimp.[0] It really is the simplest possible visual system that could work for a mantis shrimp. It's like the first engineer from Do-While Jones's story about the breakfast food cooker[1] designed the mantis shrimp's visual system, and the second engineer from that story designed ours. (Of course as far as Do-While Jones is concerned, both animals had the same designer.) [0] https://ryanblakeley.net/p/mantis-shrimp-eyes https://ryanblakeley.net/p/mantis-shrimp-eyes [1] http://www.scienceagainstevolution.info/dwj/toaster.htm http://www.scienceagainstevolution.info/dwj/toaster.htm