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entomologize:

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Random fact: Although jumping spiders can’t move their eyes, they can move their retinas to change their field of view. It’s as if they’re looking through a window.

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If the spider is clear enough, you can even see the retinas moving through the cephalothorax:

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Image sources: Melvyn Yeo, M.F. Land, and wmaddisn

note: only the largest pair of eyes can do this, the others have fixed fields of view

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