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5 comments to "Fun Pigeon Facts: Super Vision"
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Angstrom
September 22nd, 2007 at
12:51 pm
the link to the telegraph is just the word ‘link’, not an actual link.
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violet/riga
September 22nd, 2007 at
3:00 pm
For convenience, until the post is corrected, here’s the link:
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cuimhne
September 22nd, 2007 at
5:43 pm
Quite interesting :p Pigeons were featured on the show itself too with some quite ingenious ways the military tried to use them to aim bombs in the past!
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Alex
September 22nd, 2007 at
7:51 pm
Oops, thanks Angstrom and violet/riga - I’ve fixed the link.
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sparge
September 22nd, 2007 at
8:19 pm
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.
I doubt that’s the reason. People and animals has an innate and instinctual sense of physics and calculus (that’s why you can do things like catch an object thrown at you, even if you don’t consciously understand the math of an object in flight). Having more frames per second isn’t going to make something appear to be going at a different velocity. If it did, pigeons would be very uncoordinated, because their sense of physics would be off.
Probably it has to do with the fact that more frames per second = more information = a better sense of exactly how fast the car is going and how long until the pigeon needs to fly away.
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