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  2. The Fascinating Shape of a Sheep’s Pupils - AOL

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    The sheep have a dark, horizontal. Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of being round ...

  3. Cephalopod eye - Wikipedia

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    Cephalopods' eyes develop in such a way that they have retinal axons that pass over the back of the retina, so the optic nerve does not have to pass through the photoreceptor layer to exit the eye and do not have the natural, central, physiological blind spot of vertebrates. [2]

  4. Blindness in animals - Wikipedia

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    Statements that certain species of mammals are "born blind" refer to them being born with their eyes closed and their eyelids fused together; the eyes open later. One example is the rabbit . In humans the eyelids are fused for a while before birth, but open again before the normal birth time, but very premature babies are sometimes born with ...

  5. Blind spot (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of rods and cones along a line passing through the fovea and the blind spot of a human eye [1]. A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field.A particular blind spot known as the physiological blind spot, "blind point", or punctum caecum in medical literature, is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the ...

  6. Binocular vision - Wikipedia

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    Look at the uncovered eye. You may see it flick quickly from being wall-eyed or cross-eyed to its correct position. If the uncovered eye moved from out to in, the person has esophoria. If it moved from in to out, the person has exophoria. If the eye did not move at all, the person has orthophoria. Most people have some amount of exophoria or ...

  7. Crutching - Wikipedia

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    Crutching a sheep that has been wigged (eye-wooled). Freshly crutched and wigged Merino sheep. Crutching refers to the removal of wool from around the tail and between the rear legs of a sheep for hygiene purposes. It can also refer to removing wool from the heads of sheep (wigging or eye-wooling).

  8. Peripheral vision - Wikipedia

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    Classical image of the shape and size of the visual field [28]. The outer boundaries of peripheral vision correspond to the boundaries of the visual field as a whole. For a single eye, the extent of the visual field can be (roughly) defined in terms of four angles, each measured from the fixation point, i.e., the point at which one's gaze is directed.

  9. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    The visual system is the physiological basis of visual perception (the ability to detect and process light).The system detects, transduces and interprets information concerning light within the visible range to construct an image and build a mental model of the surrounding environment.