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Mantis Shrimp: The Sea's Puncher That Is Color-Blind—But Sees the World in 12 Channels and Secret Light
The mantis shrimp, a small crustacean with a punch as powerful as a .22 bullet, has the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom—16 photoreceptors, polarization vision, and three focal points per eye. However, it is color-blind in a conventional sense: its brain does not mix colors like humans do, but instead 'reads' light linearly—like a barcode. Behind this peculiarity lies a secret communication language based on polarized light reflection, as well as deep lessons about the limits of our own perception.
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