Totally Blind Species
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- Mole (animal)
The Star-nosed Mole can detect, catch and eat food faster than the human eye can follow (under 300 milliseconds).
Blind animals include the blind cave fish and cave crickets, the Texas salamander, blind flatworms, eyeless shrimp, eyeless fish, cave beetles, cave crayfish, and some bristletails, isopods and copepods.
Some animals live only in caves - they are called troglobites (meaning 'cave dwellers'). These animals are adapted to life in the dark. See- A List of Troglobites
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“It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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