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It may seem strange to talk about animals seeing at different speeds, because light is the fastest thing in the universe, and vision seems instantaneous to us. But eyes don’t work at light speed. It takes time for photoreceptors to react to incoming photons, and for the electrical signals they generate to travel to the brain.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong
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