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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Mantis shrimps have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom and have the most complex front-end for any visual system ever discovered. Compared with the three types of photoreceptor cell that humans possess in their eyes, the eyes of a mantis shrimp have between 12 and 16 types of photoreceptor cells. Furthermore, some of these stomatopods can tune the sensitivity of their long-wavelength colour vision to adapt to their environment. (Wiki)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The wavelength of Magenta doesn't actually exist. It's our red and blue photoreceptors activating without the green ones. It blows my mind how many non-existent colors mantis shrimp can see.

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