Comments on: Book review – Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature

By: Book review – The Ant Collective: Inside the World of an Ant Colony | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:00:45 +0000

[…] light actually is, as it is a surprisingly tricky phenomenon to explain. Michael Land’s book Eyes to See contains a good picture, whereas Schieb basically takes it as a given that readers will understand […]

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By: Book review – Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:28:43 +0000

[…] eyes like those of insects, yes, but uniquely made out of pure, transparent calcite. Fortey details how they worked and how the orientation of the individual hexagonal lenses has been used to reconstruct a […]

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By: Book review – An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:03:49 +0000

[…] is hard to capture and play back smell in an experimental setup. Vision is easier, but eyes come in a bewildering variety. Jumping spiders dedicate one pair to sharp vision and another pair to motion detection. Scallops […]

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By: Book review – Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:31:07 +0000

[…] the classic five senses and introduce exceptional animals. The eyes of the mantis shrimp contain some twenty different types of photoreceptors, perceiving not just colour but also properties such as polarization. According to neurobiologist […]

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By: Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:53:32 +0000

[…] with micro-CT scanning. The structure and function of the individual ommatidia that make up the compound eyes of insects. The flight mechanics in the thorax that allow flies to beat their wings at such high frequencies. […]

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By: Book review – The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 15:40:54 +0000

[…] eyes can perceive are only a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, with many animals observing other parts of that spectrum, and we know that many animals can hear and communicate in infra- and ultrasound. But that is not […]

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By: Book review – Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:26:21 +0000

[…] as humans focus images on a tiny pit in their retina called the fovea, the compound eyes of insects have specialised areas too. Blocking different parts of ant eyes has revealed how the dorsal rim area (found towards the top) […]

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By: Book review – The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:00:20 +0000

[…] with many animals observing other parts of that spectrum (see also Animal Eyes and my review of Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature), and we know that many animals can hear and communicate in infra- and ultrasound (see also Calls […]

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By: Book review – Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:19:11 +0000

[…] polarised light (we here meet the specialised area in insect eyes that Land also described in Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature), or the migrations of the monarch butterfly (see also Chasing Monarchs: Migrating With the […]

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By: Book review – Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:50:59 +0000

[…] of predators, luring of prey, camouflage by counter-illumination (graphically explained in Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature) – these and other explanations are generally given as to why animals produce light (see also The […]

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