{"id":577,"date":"2021-04-16T05:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T05:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/jkoshel\/?p=577"},"modified":"2021-04-16T05:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T05:38:50","slug":"animal-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/animal-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/04\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/04\/Picture1.png 391w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/04\/Picture1-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The optical phenomena that we observe in animals can lead us to new developments in our optics labs.\u00a0\u00a0First and foremost, there is so much to learn from animal visual systems, from birds with four receptors, animals like horses with eyes on the side of their heads, and cats with vertical slit pupils.\u00a0\u00a0On ones journey, one can extend into other optical phenomena displayed by animals, such as structural color that arises in bird feathers to give an enormous palette of colors.\u00a0\u00a0We can also explore the truth behind stated animal optics such as fiber-optic, polar bear hairs. Simply, nature has so much to teach us about optics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/04\/Photon-Snacks-1-3.pdf\">Animal Optics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/04\/Photon-Snacks-1-3.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The optical phenomena that we observe in animals can lead us to new developments in our optics labs.\u00a0\u00a0First and foremost, there is so much to learn from animal visual systems, from birds with four receptors, animals like horses with eyes on the side of their heads, and cats with vertical slit pupils.\u00a0\u00a0On ones journey, one can extend into other optical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photon-snacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jkoshel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}