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Why do eagles have such sharp eyesight, and how sharp is it? The most interesting part is answering another question – how do you give an eye test to an eagle? It’s not trivial. Here is the answer:
Birds of Prey: The Eagle’s Eye Test
Two fun facts from the video:
1) Eagles can see “about two and a half times” the detail that a human can see
2) “An eagle’s retina has about 600,000 cones per square millimeter, four times as many as in humans.”
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