Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those that don't cooperate

Re:Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those... by Wojtkie on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:23PM (#41662905)

Well, I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to spending energy on a 3rd eye. You can already achieve stereoscopic vision with just two eyes, why waste the energy on a third? It probably doesn't increase fitness enough to be worth the energy spend.

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Re:Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those... by SoftTalker on Thursday September 26, 2024 @08:16PM (#41664988)

Yet some creatures have many more than two eyes. Spiders, for example.

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Re:Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those... by notheyarent on Saturday September 28, 2024 @02:10PM (#41681938)

Those are not eyes though. Animals eyes always come in a pair and whether it’s a human, dog, cat, mouse etc they are Gods gateway to the soul. It’s self evident.

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Re:Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those... by thfuran on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:15PM (#41664093)

It might be too hard to parse, but an eye on each arm would give variable baseline and potentially 360° stereoscopic coverage.

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Re:Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those... by john2x on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:04PM (#41663999)

Different sets for different wavelength ranges

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