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cheschire 4 hours ago

Yes but can it do any color a mantis shrimp would like?

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

Tade0 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Mantis Shrimp most likely sees very much like us (or birds, snakes), it's just that its brain is too small to integrate signals from just three types of cones, so it evolved a whole rainbow of cones.

JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Huh. Anywhere you'd suggest I can read more about this?

skoocda 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This misses one of the best mantis shrimp facts.

One of its receptors only detects circularly polarized light

But the only thing we know of, in the entire natural world, that emits circularly polarized light... is the reflection off the shell of the mantis shrimp.