How do compound eyes work?

Liz takes a close-up peek at the most common type of peeper in the animal kingdom - the compound eye. They're strange and even beautiful, but why wouldn't they work for us?

29 September 2010

4 minutes

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Bang Goes the Theory—Series 3, Episode 4

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