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  2. Tapetum lucidum - Wikipedia

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    The dark blue, teal, and gold tapetum lucidum from the eye of a cow Retina of a mongrel dog with strong tapetal reflex. The tapetum lucidum (Latin for 'bright tapestry, coverlet'; / t ə ˈ p iː t əm ˈ l uː s ɪ d əm / tə-PEE-təm LOO-sih-dəm; pl.: tapeta lucida) [1] is a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrates and some other animals.

  3. What colors can cats see? Here's how your pet perceives the ...

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    From velvety purples to fiery reds, many people can see a spectrum of vivid colors via the human eye. Others, however, may have limited hue perception due to certain conditions.. Animals, on the ...

  4. What colors can cats see? A vet reveals the answer (and it ...

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    "They see color via special photoreceptive cone cells in the backs of their eye (retina), just like we do. These cells detect different wavelengths of light, sending a message to the brain ...

  5. Mammalian eye - Wikipedia

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    The tapetum lucidum, in animals that have it, can produce eyeshine, for example as seen in cat eyes at night. Red-eye effect, a reflection of red blood vessels, appears in the eyes of humans and other animals that have no tapetum lucidum, hence no eyeshine, and rarely in animals that have a tapetum lucidum. The red-eye effect is a photographic ...

  6. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [1]Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.

  7. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Birds, however, can see some red wavelengths, although not as far into the light spectrum as humans. [46] It is a myth that the common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultraviolet light; [47] their color vision extends into the ultraviolet but not the infrared. [48]

  8. Coyote - Wikipedia

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    Generally, adult coyotes (including coywolf hybrids) have a sable coat color, dark neonatal coat color, bushy tail with an active supracaudal gland, and a white facial mask. [12] Albinism is extremely rare in coyotes. Out of a total of 750,000 coyotes killed by federal and cooperative hunters between March 1938 and June 1945, only two were albinos.

  9. Chromostereopsis - Wikipedia

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    Blue–red contrast demonstrating depth perception effects 3 Layers of depths "Rivers, Valleys & Mountains". Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of red–blue or red–green colors, but can also be perceived with red–grey or blue–grey images.