| If you think I'm wrong, or you have any you can add... please just let me know! I'll add it to the table. I will need a source however, although I haven't don it myself yet! NB., trichromats see three colours, dichromats see two! |
Species |
Vision | |
| Apes (humans etc.,) | Trichromatic. Mostly | |
| Old World Monkeys eg., Mandrill |
Trichromatic | |
| New World Monkeys | Dichromatic | |
| Dogs | red/green colour blind | No time right now! |
| Cats | poor acuity: weak trichromatism | No time right now! |
| Hyenas | dichoromatic | No time right now! |
| Horses | dichromatic | No time right now! |
| Deer | Dichromatic. All ungulates? UV*? | No time right now! |
| Rats | have a UV cone, + an "M-cone" +rods i.e., funky dichromats? | No time right now! |
| Guinea Pigs | Dichromatic | Jacobs 2003 |
| Bats | Monochromatic, but including UV... don't forget their ultrasound also!! | Nature October 2003 p612-614 |
| Birds | tetrachromatic they have a UV cone ~310nm |
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| Dinosaurs | If you see one please ask! | |
| Snakes | ?, but nb., they can ("kind of") detect infrared.... not through the eye with photoreceptors, but with their facial pits. | |
| Reptiles | ? | |
| * There is a company which says they do see UV.... but this company does sell anti-UV hunting garb!! |
| This page describes the color vision abilities
of various species of animals, it would be tricky to find on google, however, because
Americans cannot spell "colour". I have therefore slipped their spelling
("color") in here a few times! RBJ Homepage: RBJ Science Blog Last modified10/03/13 |