Sunday, November 13, 2011

Do carnivores have the same visual tract arrangement as humans?

Humans have visual tracts where the left side of each retina is processed on the right side of the visual cortex and vice versa. I seem to remember this arrangement is unique to primates and closely related orders of mammal. Carnivores presumably evolved binocular vision separately. Do they have a similar arrangement to us or does the whole of each retina cross over to opposite sides, or something else?

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