@tadbithuman @RustyBertrand @inthehands wait, is sentient the right word? Today's spiders are sentient, right? What word do I want here? In the book, they think and plan and feel emotions in ways that seem human.
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Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez -
Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez@RustyBertrand @inthehands … I mean, check out the drawings in the linked Wired article!
I expected compound eyes, like insects, but those are eyes … with adjustable dual lenses, in some cases, like a frickin' zoom lens! 🤯
I'm having trouble processing that spiders may have better eyes than I do. (Can't help but think of that recent SciFi novel where a planet's apex predators are large, sentient spider descendants. I could not finish that book, though it was well written. #shudder)
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Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez@RustyBertrand @inthehands ok, looked it up. Wow!
"Several families of hunting spiders, such as jumping spiders and wolf spiders, have fair to excellent vision. The main pair of eyes in jumping spiders even sees in colour."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_vision"Spider eyes are different from insect eyes; they are not compound but simple. There is one lens for each eye, made of a thin layer of the cuticle. Below that is the retina, the actual light-detecting cells."
https://www.wired.com/2014/04/spider-vision-made-clear/ -
Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez@RustyBertrand @inthehands am I right in thinking that what look like "pupils" are actually just reflections?