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> ”Nor did a lack of movement from prey visually impair the great beast’s hunt for flesh … “Don’t move. It can’t see us if we don’t move.” This seems to work w
by Reason077 1y ago
> ”Nor did a lack of movement from prey visually impair the great beast’s hunt for flesh … “Don’t move. It can’t see us if we don’t move.”
This seems to work with birds, though. They can be oblivious to your presence even at a short distance if you stay still. But any movement will startle them and they’ll fly off. I guess that’s where this idea comes from.
But of course, ancient predators with forward-facing eyes probably worked quite differently.
- bombcar 1y agoEven us humans with our wimpy weak eyes are much better at seeing motion than stillness - it’s why camouflage works so well. And “out of the corner of the eye” is almost entirely motion.
- cco 1y agoThe book justifies it because they used frog DNA and some frog visual systems do require movement