Praying Mantises Watch Movies

Praying Mantises Watch Movies While Wearing Tiny 3-D Glasses

Amina Khan | January 9, 2016

Hollywood might have a whole new target audience for 3-D movies. Scientists have outfitted praying mantises with old-school 3-D glasses and showed them video clips to find out whether these tiny animals can see the world in three dimensions.
The results, described in Scientific Reports, show that vertebrate animals -- including amphibians, birds and mammals such as humans -- aren’t the only creatures sporting stereoscopic vision. The findings could offer new insight into the evolution of this remarkable ability in invertebrate animals, and lead to new algorithms to program 3-D vision into robots.

[March 28, 2006] Photo in the News: Housefly Gets Glasses Made With Lasers. Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0328_060328_fly_glasses.html

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/24/3d-glasses-praying-mantis_n_5204433.html

Source: http://www.popsci.com/praying-mantises-wearing-3d-glasses-prove-that-they-can-see-in-3d

<more at http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-praying-mantis-3d-glasses-20160108-story.html; related links: http://www.popsci.com/praying-mantises-wearing-3d-glasses-prove-that-they-can-see-in-3d (Praying Mantises Wearing 3D Glasses Prove That They Can See in 3D. But did they have to pay extra for the movies? January 7, 2016) and http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0328_060328_fly_glasses.html (Photo in the News: Housefly Gets Glasses Made With Lasers. March 28, 2006)>