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Botswana Safari | Animal Senses | Sight | Botswana Wildlife Guide

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This Botswana Wildlife Guide about the animal sense of sight shows how the animal's developed eyes are needed for moving, finding food and avoiding

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The BBC2 programme Super Senses: The secret power of animals, gave us a deep insight into the amazing abilities that animals have, with a focus on eyesight, hearing, and scent.

If you thought our senses were more advanced than other animals, think again.

Here's what we learned:
1. The cheetah
Humans can see most clearly within a narrow, head on viewpoint, whereas the cheetah can see across a long, horizontal narrow band, so it can spot its prey anywhere within all of its surroundings.
2. The reindeer
Reindeer can see UV light. This is crucial to their survival as in the snowy mountains of Alaska, this enables them to strip their predators - the wolf - of their camouflage. In a landscape of white snow, the wolves show up black, enabling the reindeer to spot them from afar.
3. The dragonfly
Dragonflies are master predators. They catch 95% of their prey, lions catch only 40%.

The dragonfly's eyes are sensitive to blue light which makes the sky appear very bright. Even the tiniest insect casts a dark silhouette. To actually catch it, warping vision allows them to see the world in slow motion.

It can spot and track an object and assess whether or not it is prey in 500ths of a second. We see 60 images per second, they see 200.
4. Some animals can create their own light to survive
Luminescent organisms such as ostracods, a type of crustacean, can produce their own light through chemical reactions that create a glow around them. Cardinal fish prey upon the ostracods, so when they are eaten they begin to glow and the predator spits them out so that the internal glow doesn't make them visible to their own predators.
5. All the eyes on planet earth are the size of an orange or smaller
Except the giant squid, who has eyes the size of a human head. The giant squid can detect bioluminescent light in dark waters to catch its prey or avoid its predators.
6. The peregrine falcon
The fastest animal on earth, the peregrine falcon can travel at speeds of up to 180mph and they can spot their prey from a mile away. An actual mile.
7. The Cuban boa
The Cuban boa can hunt its prey in complete darkness. In a pitch black cave, a Cuban boa can capture a bat as it can see infrared heat which is invisible to human eyes. Furthermore, it doesn't even use its eyes to detect the infrared, it actually has pits all along the bottom of its jaw, and the back of each pit is sensitive to heat.
8. The African elephant
Elephants use infrasonic hearing to communicate when they are very far from one another. They can hear thunderstorms from 500km away. That's like someone in London listening to a storm in Edinburgh.
9. The alligator
Male alligators make themselves vibrate underwater and put on a water display to attract females. And they've been doing this since the dinosaurs were around.
10. The coqui frog
The coqui frog is a very tiny Puerto Rican frog that makes distinctive and very loud 'co' and 'qui' sounds. They do it to establish territory and attract nearby females.
11. The barn owl
The barn owl can pinpoint prey to the millimeter using their ears. Their two ears are in different places in order to listen to sound in different directions and to tell how high or low the sound is coming from.
12. The bat
Bats can fly through woodland in pitch black, eat spiders from webs and pluck fish from water all by using echolocation which means they make calls during flight, and listen to the echoes that return in order to map locations - effectively seeing through sound.
13. The meerkat
Meerkats can smell danger long before they see it. They use it to track predators, and also to defend their patch.
14. The wolverine
The wolverine, the largest member of the weasel family, can sniff out frozen carcasses that get buried deep beneath the snow after avalanches.
15. The rattlesnake
A rattlesnake's sense of taste and smell are the same. When it detects a scent, it brings its tongue out and picks up scent particles. It then brings its tongue back in and presses it against the roof of its mouth to identify the scent.
16. The shark
Sharks are repelled by a scent called a necromone. This is the scent of decomposed animal remains. When released, the sharks disperse immediately, so as to avoid whatever it is that is causing animals around them to die, be it disease or predator.
17. The killer bee
When a killer bee is under threat, it attacks the threat and gives off a pheromone that marks the predator and informs the entire colony who come to its defense and joins the attack.

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The BBC2 programme Super Senses: The secret power of animals, gave us a deep insight into the amazing abilities that animals have, with a focus on eyesight, hearing, and scent. If you thought our senses were more advanced than other animals, think again. Here's what we learned: 1.

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This film is about the best senses of animals . How they have adapted for a hard life in the wild . They have refined their senses through thousands of years of evolution. The senses have evolved according the needs of the animals.

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Some animals have developed amazing adaptations to their environments. Many different types of energy exist in the environment, some of which humans cannot detect. Here are some examples of how some animals sense the outside world and the anatomical structures that allow them to do so.

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Presented by physicist Helen Czerski and biologist Patrick Aryee, Animal Super Senses explores how animals sense their world in ways far beyond our human capabilities.

Beyond the limits of human perception...

Explore the hidden world that animals across the globe can experience.

Our human senses are pretty incredible - but we only see, hear and smell a tiny fraction of what's out there. Explore how animals sense their world in ways far beyond our human capabilities.

Presented by physicist Helen Czerski and biologist Patrick Aryee, each episode of Animal Super Senses focuses on a central theme: sight, sound and scent.

Taking science out of the lab, Helen and Patrick travel five continents, getting up close to some amazing creatures and conducting an array of demonstrations and experiments out in the wild that reveal the amazing super senses of the animal world.

See how a cheetah views the world very differently from us, why the blind golden mole doesn't need eyes to find and capture its prey, and be amazed at the astounding power of a wolverine's nose.

Travel beyond the limits of human perception and prepare to be astounded by the surprising, weird and complex ways that our planet's animals sense the world around them.

Helen Czerski is a physicist, oceanographer and science presenter.

She was brought up in Manchester and her inquisitive nature and passion for the scientific was evident early in life. Helen went on to graduate from Cambridge University in 2001 with a first in Natural Sciences (Physics), followed by a PhD in experimental explosives physics in 2006.

Helen's continuing fascination with the world of small-scale phenomena led her onto the study of ocean bubble formation and a move to the USA. She spent the next four years working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and the Graduate School of Oceanography in Rhode Island, before returning back to the UK in 2010 to begin her own research project.

Helen's research focuses on the optics and acoustics of ocean bubbles, the structure of the bubble plumes caused by breaking waves, and the influence of ocean bubbles on the atmosphere.

Helen has appeared in a number of BBC shows including Dara Ó Briain's Science Club, Operation Iceberg and The Secret Life of the Sun. She also writes a regular column in BBC Focus magazine called Everyday Science and was shortlisted for columnist of the year at the 2014 Professional Publishers Association Awards.

Patrick is a biologist, presenter and wildlife filmmaker.

After studying Cancer Biology at the University of Bristol, Patrick decided to pursue a career in wildlife filmmaking.

This led to him working on a number of prime-time BBC productions including Frozen Planet, Springwatch, and Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild. Patrick has also ventured into children's programming, producing and directing the CBBC spin-off show Wolfblood Uncovered.

In 2012, Patrick started presenting the BBC's online strand Zoo La La, a weekly show about weird and wonderful animal facts that launched the new BBC/YouTube platform, Earth Unplugged.

When he isn't presenting, Patrick is a keen mountain biker and dance choreographer. He's also a qualified scuba diver.

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Animal Super Senses | BBC Earth | Shows | BBC Earth

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Presented by physicist Helen Czerski and biologist Patrick Aryee, Animal Super Senses explores how animals sense their world in ways far beyond our human capabilities. Explore the hidden world that animals across the globe can experience. Our human senses are pretty incredible - but we only see, hear and smell a tiny fraction of what's out there.

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when you have super smell it will help you cech pray in humen cases help you go to the best smelling restront.but soem times it is good to have super smell for exapel ,you can smell when rain comesar like when there is a fire you can smell it and your bran will say there is a fire go put it out.so haveing super smell is not as bad as it looks. like if you spray some thing you smell it.

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thone thing about snakes is thay can smell anything by thare tongs and thas good for them right?

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Snakes can see purple and green. but if they see red it means that there is a warm blooded animal near by.

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Snakes can see purple and green. but if they see red it means that there is a warm blooded animal near by.

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by: Ajna

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Snakes sense of smell may be surprising since they have terrible eyesight and hearing but it is indeed true. Here's a question, Do snakes smell with their Mouth Answer is yes, It may be shocking but this means taste and smell are kinda the same for the snake. The organ they use to smell is called the Jacobson.

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They have super smell to help them get thare
Pray and to mabey see if thre baby’s are in need

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platypus have bad eye eyesight

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they have bad sight but can still find thair food by useing thair senses

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lions can smell 4x we can smell
and comes in handy when they are looking for prey and to know if theres a preadator.

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the wolverine can sniff out frozen carcasses deep under the snow

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so of all snalke egg do not make it becuse they are snearks that eat othe snakes eggs

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they have super smell to find food and smell if any prediters are there

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dragon fly's have eyes that are sensitive to blue lights so the sky looks super bight to them

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in my opinion i would want super hearing because if you had super hearing you would be able to hear if someone's in need from really far away and you could hear the vibrations in the ground :Example:" thy are bringing thousands of men i can hear the pounding of her hard foot steps on the gentle but rough ground  they have several horses and  oh wait that's a centipede " i would have said that that would explain that if you put you ear to the ground you could hear everything anywhere around you . you wouldn't need your eyes to see you could hear oroned you and in my opinion that is why from all the information i have just stated is why i would want super hearing

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platypuses swim very fast and are smart they have webbing in there feet to help them swim fast and they can smell really good but are bad with eye sight

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Anne    the brid will look at the snake even thought it is well hidened the bird can still see it and go get it 

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Anne    the brid will look at the snake even thought it is well hidened the bird can still see it and go get it 

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dragon flies caught 90 percent of they prey.  We see 60 pictures a second when they see  200 pictures a second.

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animals in the safari need good eye sight to see prediters and prey

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to sesveive a snake bit you have to be rush to the hospitull and be treated and then they will take the venmum out  .

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cocroaches can live without there head because they have little holes in there body that makes them able to breath

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some animles need really good eyes so they can see there food
and get it and if they had bad eyes they could not get animale that are well hiden

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lions are the only social cat

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owls can hear really well because the sound particles bounce on to the owl causing the fur of the owl to feel it and hear it so it knows where to go

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animals all have very unique ways of hunting they have different predators and prey

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The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. Therefore, it can see in two different directions at the same time

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dragon flys catch 95 percent of there prey

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owsl are notrnul and they do not look like they can hrut you but they can they are simler to the egls but the eguls a not noctrnel

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some animales are vary smart like a lion they can see fare away and if they smell something they can eat they will hunt it

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Animals need sound to give sines or more or tell if danger ⚠️

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cats can hear super well just like dogs and other animals

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as city's grow ants dig more tunnels to keep away from people

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Some animals are very aggressive they have about 5 prey if i were to estimate

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lions smell is 40 times greater then are noses

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a snake will brow under ground and wait for pray to walk by 

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a snake will brow under ground and wait for pray to walk by 

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Platypuses Are cute and sometimes agsive they can bite. You really hard

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Anne a egle will cricil its food before it goes and gets it 

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Anne a egle will cricil its food before it goes and gets it 

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Caribou can see ultraviolet light which means things that are bright they see as