[Dragaera] night vision

Mia McDavid mia_mcdavid at comcast.net
Tue Jul 22 16:37:11 PDT 2008



Howard Brazee wrote:

> Look at which birds have eyes on the side, and which have eyes in 
> front.   Prey have their eyes on the side.   Predators are better off 
> with binocular vision - especially flying predators.   It's important to 
> be able to judge exactly when swooping down on a mouse, and not crash 
> into the ground.   Prey would rather see a larger angle to avoid being 
> caught.

And what is a jhereg?  A carnivore, to be sure, but I understood it to 
be pretty much entirely a scavenger.  That means that its food is 
stationary, but it has to watch out for predators or larger scavengers 
while it eats.
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