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
thorough 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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