Flies evade your swatting thanks to sophisticated vision and neural shortcuts
- Written by Jamie Theobald, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
Fly brains can process images very quickly.www.shutterexperiments.com/Moment via GettyImagesSitting outside on a summer evening always sounds relaxing until flies and mosquitoes arrive – then the swatting begins. Despite their minuscule eyes and a brain roughly 1 million times smaller than yours, flies can evade almost every swat.
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