Tarantulas use their lateral eyes to calculate distance

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Apr 21, 2017, 5:41 am150 pts
A necessary part of any animal's sense of direction is a positioning system to detect the relationship between where it is and where it wants to go; this is known as odometry. Tarantulas have four sets of eyes, and a study from the Autonomous University of Madrid shows that they use their posterior lateral eyes…

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