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Yes but can it do any color a mantis shrimp would like? https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
by cheschire 6mo ago
Yes but can it do any color a mantis shrimp would like?
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
- Tade0 6mo agoThe Mantis Shrimp most likely sees very much like us (or birds, snakes), it's just that its brain is too small to integrate signals from just three types of cones, so it evolved a whole rainbow of cones.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoHuh. Anywhere you'd suggest I can read more about this?
- Tade0 6mo agohttps://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/meet-the-mantis-shrimp#:~:text=They%20do%20have%20up%20to,among%20colors%20is%20surprisingly%20low https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/meet-the-mantis-...
- skoocda 6mo agoThis misses one of the best mantis shrimp facts. One of its receptors only detects circularly polarized light But the only thing we know of, in the entire natural world, that emits circularly polarized light... is the reflection off the shell of the mantis shrimp.