Page 865 - Atlas of Creation Volume 1

Harun Yahya

Hunting Birds with Keen Eyesight

Hunting birds have keen eyes that enable them to make perfect distance ad-
justments while they attack their prey. In addition their large eyes contain more
vision cells, which means better sight. There are more

than one million vision cells in the eye of a hunting bird.
Eagles that fly at thousands of meters high have
such sharp eyes that they can scan the earth perfectly at
that distance. Just as war planes detect their targets from

thousands of meters away, so do eagles spot their prey, per-
ceiving the slightest colour shift or the slightest movement on
the earth. The eagle's eye has an angle of vision of three hundred de-
grees and it can magnify a given image around six to eight times. Eagles

can scan an area of 30,000 hectares while flying 4,500 meters above it. They
can easily distinguish a rabbit hidden among grasses from an altitude of 1,500
meters. It is evident that this extraordinary eye structure of the eagle is specially cre-
ated for this creature.

Hibernating Animals

Hibernating animals can go on living although their body tempera-

ture falls to the same degree as the cold temperature outside. How do
they manage this?
Mammals are warm-blooded. This means that under normal

conditions, their body temperature always remains constant be-
cause the natural thermostat in their body keeps on regulating
this temperature. However, during hibernation, the normal body
heat of small mammals, like the squirrel rat with a normal body
heat of 40 degrees, drops down to a little bit above the freezing

point as if adjusted by some kind of a key. The body metabolism
slows down to a great extent. The animal starts breathing very slowly
and its normal heartbeat, which is 300 times a minute, falls to 7-10 beats a

minute. Its normal body reflexes stop and the electrical activities in its brain slow down almost to unde-
tectability.
One of the dangers of motionlessness is the freezing of tissues in very cold weather and their being de-
stroyed by ice crystals. Hibernating animals however are protected against this danger thanks to the special
features they are endowed with. The body fluids of hibernating animals are retained by chemical materials

having high molecular masses. Thus, their freezing point is decreased and they are protected from harm. 182

Electrical Fish

Certain species of some fish types such as electric eel and electric ray utilise the electricity produced in
their bodies either to protect themselves from their enemies or to paralyse their prey. In every living being -
including man - is a little amount of electricity. Man, however, cannot direct this electricity or take it under

control to use it for his own benefit. The above-mentioned creatures, on the other hand, have an electrical
current as high as 500-600 volts in their bodies and they are able use this against their enemies. Furthermore,
they are not adversely affected by this electricity.
The energy they consume to defend themselves is recovered after a certain time like the charging of a

battery and electrical power is once again ready for use. Fish do not use the high-voltage electricity in their
small bodies only for defence purposes. Besides providing the means for finding their way in deep dark wa-
ters, electricity also helps them sense objects without seeing them. Fish can send signals by using the elec-

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