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Guides

Questions people ask about how animals see, answered with the published research behind every number.

• Dog vs cat vision: how their eyes really compare

  Colour, sharpness, night vision, field of view and flicker, side by side, with the studies behind each number.

• Which animal has the best eyesight?

  Every species in the catalogue ranked by measured sharpness, and why sharpness is only one kind of "best".

• Animals that see ultraviolet light

  Which animals have a light receptor tuned to ultraviolet, what they use it for, and why no screen can show it.

• Are animals colour blind? Which ones, and how much

  Which animals see two colours, which see one, and what "colour blind" actually means for each.

Also: how the simulations are built, and every source · all species

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