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Squirrel's eye view

26 by 26 Challenge #3:

Pretend you are an animal (earthworm, cat, bat, sparrow, etc.), imagine what you would perceive and take a photo from this perspective

— Michael Reisch

 

Squirrels are red/green colour blind, like a lot of mammals. Apparently they have yellow-tinted eye lenses, which work like sunglasses to reduce glare and increase contrast, giving the squirrel sharper vision. Squirrels have exceptional focussing ability - a motionless squirrel can clearly see what is next to it and above it at the same time without moving it's head. "A squirrel could read the small print of a newspaper with its peripheral vision" says the book I read, though not knowing whether they like broadsheets or tabloids, I was unable to verify that for myself.

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Uploaded on April 13, 2013
Taken on April 5, 2013