Do animals see colors? Detailed answer

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Do animals see colors?

Everywhere we look, the world seems so colorful and beautiful to us, and it's hard to imagine that someone sees it in a completely different way. But how can a person determine whether animals see colors if they cannot tell about it?

Scientists have conducted many experiments to answer this question. Bees have been the subject of hundreds of such tests because it would be interesting to know how a bee finds a flower, if not by color. The following experiment was carried out: a little syrup was poured on a blue card, and a red one was left empty. Released bees flew blue. Then everyone did the opposite: they poured syrup on the red one, but not on the blue one. But the bees still flew to the blue one. So it was proved that they distinguish colors.

Two strange features of the perception of flowers by bees were soon discovered. First, they do not distinguish red. They see it as dark gray or black. Secondly, they perceive ultraviolet rays as color, although for a person it is only darkness!

Male birds are often brightly colored. Does the female perceive these colors? In experiments conducted with chickens, it has been proven that they see all the colors of the rainbow! But here's what's amazing: a man's friend - a dog - does not distinguish colors. For a long time it was believed that the dog is as perfect in perceiving colors as in distinguishing smells, sounds, sizes, and so on. But true dog lovers were not very disappointed after this discovery, as the flair completely compensates for this shortcoming. By the way, cats also do not distinguish colors.

Monkeys have a very good sense of color, but most other mammals, including the bull, do not see colors!

The reason for this phenomenon is that most of these animals hunt at night, when they do not need to distinguish colors at all, moreover: they themselves most often have a dull color, so this ability is of little importance in their life.

Author: Likum A.

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What color is the water?

The usual answer to this question is that water has no color, that it is "clear" or "transparent" and that the sea only appears blue because of the sky reflected in it. It's a delusion. The water is really blue. Incredibly faint shade, but still blue. You can see for yourself if you look into a deep hole in the snow or through the thick ice of a frozen waterfall. And if you take a very large and very deep white pool filled with water and look through it, the water will turn out to be blue.

However, this subtle hue does not explain why sometimes the water takes on a striking blue appearance when we look not through it, but at it. The reflected color of the sky definitely plays an important role here. On a cloudy day, for example, the sea doesn't look that particularly blue.

But still, not all of the light that we see is reflected from the surface of the water; some of it comes from under this surface. The dirtier the water, the more light it reflects.

Large bodies of water, such as seas and lakes, tend to have high concentrations of microscopic plants and algae in the water. In rivers and ponds, there is a lot of soil and other solids in suspension.

All of these particles reflect and scatter the light returning to the surface, resulting in the huge variety of colors we see. This explains why the Mediterranean sometimes appears emerald green under bright blue skies.

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