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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5778471" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>The idea that deer are color-blind is an often-repeated old wives' tale. Deer are not color-blind. However, their color vision is quite different than ours. We have three different types of color receptors in our eyes. One sensitive to blue light, one sensitive to yellow light, and one sensitive to red light. This produces our form of color vision. On the other side, deer only have the receptors for blue and yellow light. They do not have a receptor for red light. That means deer see the world as a combination of blue, green and yellow. because they have no red receptor, any color that is a mixture of red and other colors will look very different to them. As the light wavelength gets longer (into the red spectrum), they just see it as an increasingly dull yellow. To a deer, things we see as orange are just a dull yellow. Things we see as red would be just black or a very, very dark, dull yellow to a deer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5778471, member: 17"] The idea that deer are color-blind is an often-repeated old wives' tale. Deer are not color-blind. However, their color vision is quite different than ours. We have three different types of color receptors in our eyes. One sensitive to blue light, one sensitive to yellow light, and one sensitive to red light. This produces our form of color vision. On the other side, deer only have the receptors for blue and yellow light. They do not have a receptor for red light. That means deer see the world as a combination of blue, green and yellow. because they have no red receptor, any color that is a mixture of red and other colors will look very different to them. As the light wavelength gets longer (into the red spectrum), they just see it as an increasingly dull yellow. To a deer, things we see as orange are just a dull yellow. Things we see as red would be just black or a very, very dark, dull yellow to a deer. [/QUOTE]
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