One approach to try “to understand 3D vision in the praying mantis, the only invertebrate known to have this ability, and compare it with vision in humans” is to equip a mantis with specially-built tiny 3-D glasses, suspend the spectacles-clad mantis upside down from a post, and then monitor that mantis’s response to artificially created […]
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The mantis on the monitor
A mantis playing with (or being played with by a human via) a cursor. This epic one-minute nature adventure was video’d by Maria Plumb and Rod Thompson (and propagated by BoingBoing):