[CINC] You're Eye-to-Eye With a Whale in the Ocean. What Does It See?

[Valerie Olson]

Hi All,

The link below is another "spin-off" around the interest in the work  
done by photographer Bryant Austin ...  life size photographs of  
three species of whales.  The article below is long and, in some  
places, very dense.  The author wanders off a lot, but if you are  
interested in how eyes work, it is well worth the read.  Buried near  
the end is "sort of" a conclusion:


  Then he (an eye researcher) said something that's key to  
understanding what we can know about the vision, and maybe the minds  
of whales: "All we really know is what they can't do." They don't  
have binocular vision. They couldn't read the big E on a chart at the  
eye doctor's office. Their ocean is not blue.  But when it comes to  
what it's like *inside* those big heads, we're almost no further  
along than Melville's guess more than 150 years ago.


http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/youre-eye-to- 
eye-with-a-whale-in-the-ocean-what-does-it-see/274448/


Valerie Olson

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