Facts about Mantis Shrimp Vision Capabilities

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   Mantis shrimp eyes can detect wavelengths of light ranging from deep ultraviolet through the visible spectrum into the infrared, a broader spectral range than any human can perceive.

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   Mantis shrimp can detect circularly polarized light, a capability found in virtually no other animal and potentially used for private communication between individuals.

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   The compound eyes of mantis shrimp sit on independent stalks and can move separately from each other, giving them trinocular vision in each eye.

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   Unlike humans, mantis shrimp process color information in the eye itself rather than in the brain, using a time-based scanning mechanism.

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   Mantis shrimp possess 16 types of photoreceptors, far more than the three found in human eyes, allowing them to detect ultraviolet and polarized light.

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