Question I have been asked

[Guest Greig the doo Drysdale]

Are pigeons color blind?

 

 

Are dogs color blind?

[Wiley]

Most birds are not coloured blind, specially the species where males and females feathering differs as the bright and vibrant colours of the male are there to attract there mates. Birds can also see UV lights and have four different sensitivity cone cells compared to a human which only has 3 cone cells

[Guest Greig the doo Drysdale]

Thanks wiley boy. what about dogs?

[Wiley]

dogs are red and green colour blind this website will help you

 

http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dog/LA/DrP4.htm

[jimmy white]

i think this goes a lot deeper than this , but basicly as far as im aware pigeons are tetrachromats   see 4 colours [ but see differantly than humans ]  www.2.abc.net.au.    humans are trichomat  ,,and im doormat ;D ;D ;D,,very interesting post

[DOVEScot]

Don't know how many fields of colour they can see but they can recognise different colours

I was at a bird show which included trained pigeons, they had them trained to associate different colours to different tasks, one being at the end of their free flying display he displayed a colour and they all returned to their loft, they said that this colour they associated with being fed

Sad but true :-/

[Roland]

Are pigeons color blind?

 

No

 

Are dogs color blind?

 

?