Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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Fast-paced lives demand faster vision: Ecology shapes how 'quickly' animals see time

Animals don't just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds. That is according to a new study that considered 237 species across the animal kingdom, and which revealed that how fast an animal lives and moves strongly predicts how quickl...

Fast-paced lives demand faster vision: Ecology shapes how 'quickly' animals see time
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Animals don't just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds. That is according to a new study that considered 237 species across the animal kingdom, and which revealed that how fast an animal lives and moves strongly predicts how quickly it can visually process the world around it.

Originally published at Phys.org

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