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Re: The Third Eye

  • From: P3D Joerg Meyer [Inf.] <jmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: The Third Eye
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 13:04 CETDST
On 11 Apr 1996 17:49:33 John Bell  <johnb@xxxxxx> wrote:

>Any zoologists out there aware of animals that have more than two eyes? Where
>do they keep the "extras"? And what's their visualizing advantage thought to
>be? 

There is some sort of fish which has four eyes,
two under water and two above the surface.
So they can watch their prey under water
and their enemies (birds, etc.) in the sky
at the same time.
   I'm not sure if they can point their eyes
in four differrent directions. I think there
are always two eyes in the same eye hole.
I wonder how the visual cortex processes
four different images...


Joerg


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