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Flies See the World In Slo-Mo, Say Researchers

Posted by timothy on from the sure-passes-quickly-as-the-decades-pass dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'The smaller an animal is, and the faster its metabolic rate, the slower time passes for it, scientists found. This means that across a wide range of species, time perception is directly related to size, with animals smaller than us seeing the world in slow motion.' No wonder it took so long to grow up!" Here's the original paper.

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  1. Re: oh no by Badblackdog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I get the same slow perception of time when I get baked.

  2. Re:So flies are 4 times as twitchy as we are? by omnichad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fly swatters flick faster than we can move our own hands. In other cases, we can strategically hit one step ahead of where we think they'll be.

  3. Re:So flies are 4 times as twitchy as we are? by Cyko_01 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    just because their brain processes things faster it doesn't mean they can move fast enough to get out of the way. Consider the size of a flyswatter in relation to the size of the fly