Showing posts with label Wonderful Animal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wonderful Animal. Show all posts

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Wonderful Animal

Just to appreciate the scale, we're showing you a giant squid's eye, detached, sadly, from its former owner. Giant squid have the largest eyes in the world, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
 



We're not letting you off the hook without having to look at a spider. Sorry, arachnophobes! Jumping spiders can see with three different sets of eyes. Wide-angle side eyes detect distant movement; two large eyes on the head extend to provide telephoto vision for tracking prey, & four additional side eyes observe movement all around them.



        Deer flies have stunners for eyes. Careful getting too close, though: they can bite with vengeance.