Scientists Give Praying Mantises Tiny 3D Glasses

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Newcastle University are outfitting praying mantises with tiny 3D glasses in order to study how their vision works. From the article: 'Praying mantises have stereoscopic vision, unlike most invertebrates. This makes them sophisticated hunters, and ideal subjects for a team from Newcastle University led by vision scientist Jenny Read. By putting 3-D glasses on the mantises and faking them out, Reid and her colleagues want to learn how the insect's vision differs from ours.""

Oculus rift: mantis simulator

[Anonymous Coward]

Eat your way though eager bachelors, defend your territory against other insects, boss fight nerdy etymologists.

Finally...

[meridien]

Great. Maybe they will enjoy the stupid 3D movies that no one else gives a crap about.

And prosthetics

[Boawk]

Scientists returned to the drawing board after their first field trial of putting the glasses on a praying mantis ended in failure. The team is soon expected to announce the design prosthetic ears for the praying mantises,