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Anna Gislen of The University of Lund, Sweden was investigating different aspects of vision in 1999. It was then when a colleague suggested her that she might find the unique characteristics of the Moken people Interesting as well. The Moken people includes small tribes along the west coast of Thailand, deep in the archipelagos of the Andaman Sea. In search of food, their children spend most of the day in the sea _ and surprisingly they are uniquely adapted to this job, for they can see underwater.

The Mokens give credit to their unique practice, and believe that with some small practice, small children can easily see underwater; as if these are the Dolphins. Yet they do concede that adults in the tribe lose the ability to see as clearly as the children do.

Anna Gislen, during her research where she spent time with the community, failed to understand the exact reasons, yet what she believe is the fact that their eye may be more adaptable to the underwater conditions. Such assumption was also supported by the fact that adults fail to see as clear as children; thus its quite possible that the special unique power of the Moken Children has to do with Adaptation.

In her further experiments; what she came across was most surprising. It was revealed that they can constrict their pupils to the maximum known limit of human performance, wow! Normally when you go underwater, everything is so blurry that the eye doesn’t even try to accommodate, it’s not a normal reflex,” says Gislen. “But the Moken children are able to do both – they can make their pupils smaller and change their lens shape. Seals and dolphins have a similar adaptation.”

Unfortunately, the children in Gislen’s experiments may be the last of the tribe to possess the ability to see so clearly underwater, yet there is still "may be" in the last line, that gives us hope


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