This is how animals see the world.

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Scientists have recorded the visual acuity of about 600 different animal species, revealing how different we are to seeing the world.

Certainly people have some developed aspects of their vision, but animals are not lagging behind. Man sees about seven times more intense than a cat, ten times more intense than a rat or goldfish and hundreds of times more intense than a mosquito.

This study wants to show how some scenes may look different in the eyes of the animals.



In a study published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, researchers estimate the visual acuity - or the sharpness of vision - in different species based on the anatomy of their eye. Compared to humans, most species "see the world in much less detail than we do," says one of the authors of the survey.



Images are processed to reproduce the way animals see the world showing the dramatic differences in the possibilities of their vision. The photos were edited in a program called AcuityView, which from a digital photograph removes the details based on the visual abilities of each animal.

The images of the study, however, represent only the visual acuity of animals and not the role the brain plays in the processing of visual information.


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