Fun Pigeon Facts: Super Vision
Funny British TV quiz show Quite Interesting hosted by Stephen Fry, covered before on Neatorama here, also has a weekly column on Telegraph. Today’s column, about strange animal facts, is particularly … well, interesting. Take for example the humble pigeon:
To keep alive in the wild, a pigeon needs to keep its eyes open for predators. Having eyes on the side of its head gives it a field of view of 340 degrees and, in order to fly at speed, its brain can process visual information three times faster than a human’s. If a pigeon watched a feature film, 24 frames per second would appear to it like a slide presentation. They would need at least 75 frames per second to create the illusion of movement on screen. (This is why pigeons seem to leave it until the very last second to fly out of the way of an oncoming car: it appears much less fast to them.)
Link - Thanks violet/riga!
If you like QI’s article, you’d probably get a kick out of Neatorama’s 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits
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September 22, 2007 at 12:29 pm by Alex
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