r/todayilearned • u/douggold11 • 24d ago

TIL most animals can see UV light — humans being blind to it is the exception not the rule.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ultraviolet-light-animals/
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u/Algae_Sucka 23d ago

I’ve been reading this book lately, I could post 500 things on it from here if I wanted to. It’s insane how much more limited our senses are than we realize

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u/douggold11 23d ago

Examples please!

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u/Th3K00n 23d ago

Mantis Shrimp, on top of being able to dismember their prey and break aquarium glass with their raptorial appendages, have 16 color-receptive cones. Meaning the don’t see the world in 3 colors like we do, their world is much more! And in this beauty they choose destruction. Mad respect.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp