{"id":153520,"date":"2022-12-24T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/small-and-speedy-animals-perceive-time-faster-than-big-slow-creatures"},"modified":"2022-12-24T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:23:09","slug":"small-and-speedy-animals-perceive-time-faster-than-big-slow-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/small-and-speedy-animals-perceive-time-faster-than-big-slow-creatures","title":{"rendered":"Small and speedy animals perceive time faster than big, slow creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/small-and-speedy-animals-perceive-time-faster-than-big-slow-creatures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn their world, everything is just a blur,\u201d says Healy. The starfish\u2019s temporal perception may be so slow because it is an herbivore \u2013 it doesn\u2019t need to strike fast to get a meal. A tasty coral polyp will be in the same place even if it takes the starfish more than a second to find it. A marine predator such as a shark, on the other hand, needs to see faster to catch fish, which are constantly moving.<\/p>\n<p>On average, flying animals detect light changes at a faster rate than land-bound animals, likely because they need to be able to sense changes around them quickly to avoid collisions. \u201cIf you fly, you see faster,\u201d says Healy.<\/p>\n<p>Healy\u2019s research found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2267165-dragonflies-do-a-backwards-roll-to-fly-upright-even-when-unconscious\/\">dragonflies<\/a> can perceive changes in their environment the fastest, detecting 300 flashes per second \u2013 nearly five times faster than humans and 400 times faster than starfish. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like bullet time in <em>The Matrix<\/em>,\u201d says Healy, describing dragonflies\u2019 time perception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn their world, everything is just a blur,\u201d says Healy. The starfish\u2019s temporal perception may be so slow because it is an herbivore \u2013 it doesn\u2019t need to strike fast to get a meal. A tasty coral polyp will be in the same place even if it takes the starfish more than a second to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}