
World in the Eye of Science. From an Insect’s Point of View
It is believed that humans acquire up to 90 % of knowledge about the external world through their stereoscopic vision. Unlike humans, hares have peripheral vision, which allows them to see objects located sideways and even behind them! The eyes of deep-sea fish can be nearly as large as half their head, and the lamprey’s parietal “third eye” allows it to navigate aptly in the water. Snakes can only see a moving object, and the peregrine falcon is recognized to have the world’s keenest eyesight, capable of tracking prey from a height of 8 km! But how do representatives of the most numerous and diverse class of living organisms on the Earth – insects – see the world? Surprisingly, but along with vertebrates, to whom insects are inferior only in body size, it is insects that have the most advanced vision and sophisticated eyes. More about this in a story that Viktor V. GLUPOV – a scientist, traveler and photographer, remarkable in his art of macrophotography – tells us through his images
