It always amazes me how small birds change direction mid-flight and seem to do it frequently, being able to make tons of movements in small urban areas with lots of obstacles.
Same thing with squirrels – they move so fast and seem to be able to make a hundred movements in the time a human could be able to make ten!
So what’s going on here? Do some animals just THINK faster than humans, and not only move faster than them?
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Lots of great answers here. However people often overlook the fact that while humans have an reaction time of 200ms+ on concious reflexes, automatic built-in reflex like balance is measured to be as low as 50ms. While a cat is shown to only have as fast as an 44ms reaction speed.
What this means is that more reflex and instinctual an reaction is, the faster it is, no matter the animal. So the better way to look at this is that more thinking required = slower reaction. Does that translate to perciving time faster or slower, proboly not directly as in “living in slow-mo” kind of way, but they most likely live a life where they are super twitchy and less controlling of themsleves, and more on “autopilot” (less thinking).
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