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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Someone on Youtube made a great video roughly showing what certain animals see. Small creatures like birds and squirrels physically experience time differently.
They process it much ‘slower’ in the sense it gives them *more* time to react. If you had full bodily function, feeling fully normal, but time is x0.5, you can react much quicker due to everything around you being slower.
This is simply just due to them being much smaller. They’re just much simpler creatures, so there is just less going on. Human reaction time is like (much less commonly) 100ms all the way up to like 250ms. It’s still very quick, but some birds have reaction times of 70ms-80ms.
I guess a better way to think of it is like the flash or quicksilver. They go so fast and process so quickly that time slows down for them, but they still have complete normal function of their body.
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