Mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda) Mantis shrimps probably have the most sophisticated vision in the animal kingdom. Their compound eyes move independently and they have 12 to 16 visual pigments compared to our three. They are the only animals known to be able to see circular polarised light.
Eagles – Best Eyes in the Animal Kingdom
To put that into perspective, an eagle has the visual acuity of 20/5 – meaning that it can see at 20 feet what a human with 20/20 vision would need to be 5 feet away from to see. By this standard, an eagle's visual acuity is 4 times stronger than ours.
Eagles and other birds of prey are the kings of the animal kingdom when it comes to visual acuity. Their retinas are not only packed with light-detecting cone cells, but they also have a much deeper fovea—a cone-rich structure in the back of the eye—which acts like a telephoto lens on a camera.
Eagles and hawks are thought to have the sharpest vision in the animal kingdom and some species have the equivalent of 20/2.5 eyesight, which means they can make out small details up to eight times further away than humans can, enabling them to spot a meal three kilometers away.
The quirks of mantis shrimp vision
The mantis shrimp's visual system is unique in the animal kingdom. Mantis shrimps, scientifically known as stomatopods, have compound eyes, a bit like a bee or a fly, made up of 10,000 small photoreceptive units.
Leech: The interior structure of a leech is divided into 32 different segments, each of which has its own brain.
Summary: Box jellyfish may seem like rather simple creatures, but in fact their visual system is anything but. They've got no fewer than 24 eyes of four different kinds.
Rhinoceroses
National Geographic has the answer: 15 feet. Even though rhinos can charge up to 30 miles per hour, they can't distinguish between a human and a tree at 15 feet. Unless rhinoceroses can clearly hear and smell you, they have no way of knowing where you are in physical space.
One of them is the bat, who in contrast to common belief, is not totally blind. Bats have terrible vision and this is why they depend on echolocation to navigate and catch food.
Most dogs have only about 30 to 60 degrees of binocular overlap versus approximately 140 degrees cats and humans. But dogs are champions when it comes to visual field of view. That means when King looks straight ahead he can still see 240 degrees, compared to 200 degrees in cats and 180 degrees in humans.
The new research shows that dolphins have the longest memory yet known in any species other than people. Elephants and chimpanzees are thought to have similar abilities, but they haven't yet been tested, said study author Jason Bruck, an animal behaviorist at the University of Chicago.
Eagles can also quickly shift focus, allowing them to essentially “zoom” in on their prey. They also can see a wider range of colors than we can, allowing them to differentiate small changes in coloration in their prey, as well as see UV light. As far as daytime vision goes, eagles, hawks, and falcons reign supreme.
As a group, the Aborigines have significantly better visual acuity than the Europeans. This was true for both monocular and binocular vision. Some Aborigines have acuities below the previous postulated threshold levels. Aborigines as a group also have the previous postulated threshold levels.
Finally, we come to the king of the color-seeing kingdom: the mantis shrimp. As compared to humans' measly three color-receptive cones, the mantis shrimp has 16 color-receptive cones, can detect ten times more color than a human, and probably sees more colors than any other animal on the planet.
Hydras are the relatives of jellyfish with tentacles. You must have studied how hydras move using their tentacles. They use their tentacles to sting and hunt other smaller invertebrates in an aquatic environment. They do not have eyes but have the capability of responding to light.
Only one animal cannot see in colour
The only animal that has been confirmed to see only in black and white is a fish called a Skate. This is because it has no cones in its eyes.
Although chitons look very simple, these mollusks have a very sophisticated shell. Its outer layer contains up to 1000 tiny eyes, each a bit smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
Thus, Chameleon can see both sides at the same time.
Scallops have up to 100 very unique and specific eyes.
Argos (or Argus Panoptes) was the “all-seeing” 100- eyed giant in Greek mythology.
Answer and Explanation: Yes, there is in fact a small genus of copepod called the Cyclops that has only one eye. This tiny (smaller than a grain of rice) animals are found in water and all the species of this genus have only one eye.