Timeline for Do octopuses have better eyes than humans?
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| Apr 14, 2017 at 21:10 | history | notice added | AliceD♦ | Needs citation | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 21:09 | comment | added | AliceD♦ | In terms of the number of photoreceptors; that may only benefit light sensitivity and not visual acuity dependent on the connections with the secondary neurons. The blind spot in humans is mitigated by binocular vision. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 20:59 | comment | added | Superbest | Would the blind spot matter? The respective blind spots of the two eyes don't overlap, so unless you are a pirate (I suppose a frequent victim of sharks), you will still see all the things in either of your blind spots, there will just be two small spots in your FOV where you don't have depth perception. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 18:58 | comment | added | MCM | "Like other cephalopods, they can distinguish the polarization of light. Color vision appears to vary from species to species, being present in O. aegina but absent in O. vulgaris." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Sensation | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 17:19 | comment | added | terdon | Nice answer, +1. Do you have a reference for the photoreceptor claim? | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 17:19 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2013 at 5:38 | comment | added | Saharsh | Of course it depends, As I cleared above both have some advantages and disadvantages. So, It's completely depends. But In some manner of course the Octopus will see the Shark first because they didn't have blind spot so their field of view is more than a common person. | |
| Jan 7, 2013 at 19:01 | vote | accept | Nathaniel Bubis | ||
| Jan 7, 2013 at 19:01 | comment | added | Nathaniel Bubis | So if a diver and an octopus where to be threatened by a shark, the octopus would see the shark first? | |
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| Jan 7, 2013 at 17:39 | history | answered | Saharsh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |