Comment by Reason077
7 days ago
> ”Nor did a lack of movement from prey visually impair the great beast’s hunt for flesh … “Don’t move. It can’t see us if we don’t move.”
This seems to work with birds, though. They can be oblivious to your presence even at a short distance if you stay still. But any movement will startle them and they’ll fly off. I guess that’s where this idea comes from.
But of course, ancient predators with forward-facing eyes probably worked quite differently.
Even us humans with our wimpy weak eyes are much better at seeing motion than stillness - it’s why camouflage works so well.
And “out of the corner of the eye” is almost entirely motion.
The book justifies it because they used frog DNA and some frog visual systems do require movement