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========== Whether it's Pixar's Dory with
short-term memory loss or the saying "Hehas the brain of a goldfish" or
constantly told that fish are simple andhave poor memories, but are they more
complex than we think?This is the rotating snake illusion.
As you move your eyesthe snakes appear to be moving in
circles, but the image is actually stationary.It turns out that fish see this illusion
in the similar way to you and I. Eventhough fish diverged from land
vertebrates 450 million years ago,both have developed similar vision to
hunt, escape predators, and avoidcollisions.Researchers have hypothesized that we
see the same motion illusions as aresult of convergent evolution, where
organisms not closely relatedindependently evolved similar traits as...
