Tarantulas Use Their Lateral Eyes to Calculate Distance (IMAGE)

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Tarantulas Use Their Lateral Eyes to Calculate Distance

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This is the arrangement of the 4 pairs of eyes on the cephalothorax of the spider Lycosa tarantula.

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Joaquín Ortega Escobar

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