Test your field of vision - Osnabrück, NI, Germany - Outdoor Interactive Science Displays on Waymarking.com

To use this, you have to step onto the little concrete block indicating where your feet go and look straight. The sign explaines, that predators usually have their eyes sitting in front of the face and more parallel. Prey has them more at the side of the face which broadens their field of view tremendously. Now if you stand where you are supposed to and look straight you will not see the lion rushing towards you. You have to turn your head.

Scientific Principle(s) being demonstrated: Very simply demonstrates what a field of vision is and if you compare with your friends you can compare your ranges. Briefly explain if the experiment was effective for you. Could it have been better?: Since someone told me to close my eyes and step on the platform blindly the first time it really worked great. I just saw the antelopes, read the text "if you were an antelope you would have seen the lion" and asked myself "what lion?" The second I turned my head I was shocked shorty because I did not expect it to be there. Of course it is more a one time thing. When is the apparatus/experiment available to the public: Basically available from dawn to dusk, most days of the year, not on very high national holidays.

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