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whaleiumsharkspeare · 3 months

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In Wonka (2023), when he sings “all the colors of the rainbow, and some others too”, the “others too” of that line refers to the color wavelengths on the light spectrum that mantis shrimp can see but humans can’t, in this essay I will-

#this is a joke because even though mantis shrimp have 12 photoreceptors while humans have 3 #they are apparently not very good at differentiating between individual colors #they perceive colors faster than humans but they can’t identify differences between them quite as well #follow for more fascinating shrimp facts #like how pistol shrimp colonies in WW2 made so much noise that they interfered with sonar detection for submarine warfare #marine biology #marine biology memes #Wonka #wonka 2023 #mantis shrimp

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