How Do Other Animals See the World?

It’s hard to know what the world looks like to animals, but scientists have developed a new technology to help with that.

By Avery Hurt
Sep 13, 2024 6:00 PM
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If you haven’t given it much thought, you probably think non-human animals see the world the same way we do. The truth is the world looks very different to most other animals than it does to us.

And this discrepancy between how non-human animals see the world and how we do can be a problem for wildlife biologists. To address this, Daniel Hanley, biologist at George Mason University and his team published their results in PLOS Biology on a new recording system that could help better capture how animals see the world.

How Animals See the World

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