How is a Chicken like a Mercedes-Benz?

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 ourself
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 stabilize 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,

because chickens have that long neck!

Allright, well, I'll see
you, hairy mammals, tomorrow.

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Ill see ya!

Bye!!!

I want to know
what your favorite animal eye is.

Mine is the chameleon.