Did you guys know that

chickens are made out of magic?

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Hey guys! So is a Mercedes-Benz like a chicken?

or is a chicken like a Mercades-Benz?

Confused?

Watch this.

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Its a new Mercedes-Benz ad

which features a new stabilization system

as advanced as a chicken's head.

These chickens are demonstrating their

Vestibulo-ocular reflex

It's the ability that chickens use

to stabilize their vision while their

body moves!

Allow me to demonstrate.

Stare at this eye while

moving your head around in circles

like a crazy person.

What did you notice?

While your head moves every which way,

your eyes stayed in relatively

the same position.

this is how we stabilize our eyes

in order to process an image.

light shines through our pupil

into the retina in the back of our eye.

creating a retinal image.

If our eyes move too quickly,

we do not give our eyes enough time to

process the retinal image.

Therefore, giving us blurry vision.

We stabilize our vision through maintaining

our eye position

and chickens stabilize their vision

through maintaining their head position.

chickens don't have the same

ocular motor control as us

so, they have evolved the muscles

in their neck and their head

to stabalize what they see.

Not only do birds have stabilized heads,

but other animals do too, like cats.

It just doesn't look as cool when you move them around

cause chickens have that long neck!

Alright, well I'll see you

hairy mammals tomorrow.

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Ill see ya!

Byeeee

I wanna know what your favorite

animal eye is!

Mine is the chameleon.

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