lbarea at waikato.ac.nz writes: >Some birds do see in sterio, >Natural selection is likely to have favoured sterio vision As to why the gannet would not use stereo vision, this reference is interesting: D. N. Lee, The optic flow field: The foundation of vision, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B 290, pp. 169--179, 1980. Patrick