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What does the world look like through another animal's eyes?

Every visual system samples a different slice of reality. Pick an animal and the scene is redrawn using its receptors, its acuity, its field of view and its senses that are not sight. Nothing here is a photograph with a filter on it.

A meadow. The near test chart carries six rows of bars, each row twice as fine as the one above: the rows that survive are the ones this eye can resolve. A second chart sits 120 metres away, dead ahead, with a warm body beside it, for the eyes built to reach that far. Yellow flowers hide an ultraviolet bullseye, the poppies reflect none. The mouse is warm, the puddle reflects polarised light, and something rushes the camera every nine seconds.

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