Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting

Re:Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed... by RolloTom on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:33AM (#16301815)

Relevant, cheetahs running filmed with an high speed camera: Cheetahs on the Edge—Director’s Cut https://vimeo.com/53914149

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Re:Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed... by achr2 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @08:51AM (#16302722)

I have watched this video dozens of times. It is like an hour of meditative breathing exercises condensed into 5 minutes.

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Re:Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed... by wmu on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:54AM (#16303495)

Thanks for this clip, it's amazing how it keeps the head still. BTW, the kingfisher has similar ability, check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIs4tpV2FUQ

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Re:Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed... by blacksmith_tb on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:38PM (#16305366)

Optical image stabilization! I am interested to see that this seems to be the way various predators have solved the problem, I take it that unlike the direction our camera technology is going (which is to throw more software at the problem), it was most economical to use a lot of tiny neck muscle adjustments (no Moore's law for predator brains, to be fair, so it might have tied up a lot of neurons to do the same in software).

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