[Cyborg] magnetic sense in birds
Eric Boyd
mrericboyd at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 11 03:56:04 UTC 2010
Wow, that's an awesome article you attached. I especially love the conclusion:
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People unaware of these intriguing findings often ask me, “What does ultraviolet vision do for birds?” The question seems to imply that sensitivity to UV must be a peculiarity or even a feature that self-respecting birds should be able to live happily without. We are so locked into the world of our own senses that, although we readily understand and fear a loss of vision, we cannot conjure a picture of a visual world beyond our own. It is humbling to realize that evolutionary perfection is a will-o’-the-wisp and that the world is not quite what we imagine it to be when we measure it through a lens of human self-importance.
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I am also fascinated by the idea that our third cone cell is merely a mutated clone of the second cone cell that birds have, you can see this in the spacing of the cones:
Birds: 370 445 508 565
Humans: 424 530 560
Clearly the vision of birds is not only better for being tetra-chromatic, but also better because "red" and "green" are spaced further apart!
I hope someone is researching gene therapy to give humans the vision of birds, cause damn, sign me up!
Eric
On 7/10/10 8:32 PM, kristinneidlinger wrote:
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> here is more on the bird eye...
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> ps. i am currently working on a UV fur.
> does anyone know about UV?
> do you have any good paint or reflective surface suggestions?
> i am experimenting with this glow powder and it is not very strong.
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> thanks!
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> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Eric Boyd <mrericboyd at yahoo.com
> <mailto:mrericboyd at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> Some Birds Can See Magnetic Fields
> http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/09/137230/Some-Birds-Can-See-Magnetic-Fields?art_pos=3
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> Eric
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