Phrenotopia | Mantis Shrimp Color Vision: Really Superior? | Alien Analysis @Phrenotopia | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 18 hours ago
Would alien beings evolved on another planet see the “world” the same way as we do? Here on Earth at least, there are many examples of creatures with superior vision compared to us humans.
One group of species that has become especially famous are mantis shrimp. Web comic artist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal already mused about how the Mantis Shrimp must see a “thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty”.
The reason given for this is that their compound eyes have 12 different kinds of photoreceptors each attuned to different frequencies of light. Humans only have a “measly” 3. So it is assumed that mantis shrimp colour vision must be both completely alien and spectacular!
But is that really so? And what would this mean for colour vision in extraterrestrial beings? Let's find out!
CREDITS:
Mantis shrimp comic on The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Special thanks to Loren Petrich for creating a color blindness simulator. (http://lpetrich.org/Science/ColorBlindnessSim/ColorBlindnessSim.html)
Images:
- Mantis shrimp character by bm.iphone (flickr.com/photos/bmiphone/17069199788)
- Aegyptopithecus by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aegyptopithecus_NT.jpg)
- Multituberculate by Jude Swales / Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (http://www.burkemuseum.org/research-and-collections/vertebrate-paleontology)
- "Bornean Tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus borneanus)" by Bernard DUPONT (flickr.com/photos/berniedup/8067063777)
- "Little Bunnies" Jannes Pockele (flickr.com/photos/jpockele/3727298774)
- "Mantis Shrimps' Eyes Crop - Odontodactylus scyllarus" by Silke Baron (flickr.com/photos/silkebaron/19303160218)
Ambient music:
http://freesound.org/people/lemoncreme
Outro:
http://freesound.org/people/frankum
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Would alien beings evolved on another planet see the “world” the same way as we do? Here on Earth at least, there are many examples of creatures with superior vision compared to us humans.
One group of species that has become especially famous are mantis shrimp. Web comic artist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal already mused about how the Mantis Shrimp must see a “thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty”.
The reason given for this is that their compound eyes have 12 different kinds of photoreceptors each attuned to different frequencies of light. Humans only have a “measly” 3. So it is assumed that mantis shrimp colour vision must be both completely alien and spectacular!
But is that really so? And what would this mean for colour vision in extraterrestrial beings? Let's find out!
CREDITS:
Mantis shrimp comic on The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Special thanks to Loren Petrich for creating a color blindness simulator. (http://lpetrich.org/Science/ColorBlindnessSim/ColorBlindnessSim.html)
Images:
- Mantis shrimp character by bm.iphone (flickr.com/photos/bmiphone/17069199788)
- Aegyptopithecus by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aegyptopithecus_NT.jpg)
- Multituberculate by Jude Swales / Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (http://www.burkemuseum.org/research-and-collections/vertebrate-paleontology)
- "Bornean Tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus borneanus)" by Bernard DUPONT (flickr.com/photos/berniedup/8067063777)
- "Little Bunnies" Jannes Pockele (flickr.com/photos/jpockele/3727298774)
- "Mantis Shrimps' Eyes Crop - Odontodactylus scyllarus" by Silke Baron (flickr.com/photos/silkebaron/19303160218)
Ambient music:
http://freesound.org/people/lemoncreme
Outro:
http://freesound.org/people/frankum
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Facebook: facebook.com/Phrenomythic
Twitter: twitter.com/Phrenomythic
Tumblr: http://phrenomythic.tumblr.com
Reddit: reddit.com/r/Phrenomythic
COPYRIGHTS:
Any copyrighted material used in this video is done so for purposes of education, review and/or satire and thus covered by "Fair Use". No ownership is claimed for any such materials other than my own.
