Sharks see “a glowing underwater world.
The staff of the research laboratory at the American Museum, the experiment was conducted over the sharks. As a result, they saw the underwater world through the eyes of these predators.
Recently conducted a unique study with a camcorder “shark eye” simulates the view of sharks in their natural habitat. Later results in the form of articles have been published in the renowned international scientific publication Scientific Reports.
Researchers to conduct their work chose the members of the cat family of sharks, with the properties of biofluorescence, that is, the possibility of illumination of the skin in contact with blue light that has the ability deeper penetration compared to the rest.
In the experiment, scientists were able to identify a strong link between a change in contrast of the figure depicted on the shark. As it turned out, the deeper the water sinks, the shark, the brighter and more contrast to become a pattern that allows the rest of the sharks to calculate their relatives.
At the moment scientists are trying to figure out is whether you are able to see sharks and other representatives of the underwater world, with biofluorescence properties and, if so, through what biological mechanism this occurs.
