Do animals possess color vision?

Answer 1

Some of them do, and some (like dogs) do not.

Answer 2

the world is so bright with color everywhere we turn that it's hard to imagine that other creatures don't see it as we do. but how can we find out whether animals can see color when they can't tell us?
scientists have made many experiments to get the answer. the bee has been the subject of hundreds of these tests, because we have been curios to know whether the bee tells flowers apart by their color. in one experiment, a bit of sirup was put in front of a blue card, and no sirup in front of a red card. after a while, the bees would come to the blue card, no matter where it was placed, and even if it had no sirup in front of it. this proved they could tell colors apart.
two strange things were found out about the bee's ability to see in color. the first is that a bee cannot see red as a color. for a bee, it's only dark grey or black. the second is that bees can see ultraviolet as a color, while for human beings, it is just darkness!
male birds have bright colors. can female birds see those colors? in experiments done with hens, it was proven that they can see all the colors of the rainbow! but now comes a surprise. the animal that is probably closest of all to man as a friend, the dog, is color blind! so far all experiments that have been made prove that the dog can't tell one color from another. many times when we think dog is responding to a color, he is really responding to some other clue or sign- smell,size,shape. dog lovers should not be too disappointed by this because the dog's sense of smell is so great that it probably compensates for the inability to see in color. cats,by the way, seem to be color-blind too!
monkeys and apes have a very good sense of color, but most other mammales are colorblind, including bulls!
the reason for colorblindness in mammals is connected with the fact that most of them hunt by the night and don't depend on color, and also that they themselves are usually dull in color, so it isn't important in their lives.

Answer 3

Some animals do indeed have colour vision. The animals that do have one major thing in common - they rely on their vision for most of their sensory information, and are mainly active during daylight hours.

Colour vision does come at a cost to the animal though By developing good colour vision, the animal's night vision becomes less acute.


There are also some animals, like bees, that can see in wavelengths of light that we cannot. Bees are an example of animals that can see in ultra-violet light, which lets them see the landing-strip style patterns on some flowers that we cannot.

Answer 4

Bulls see gray. The red is for the audience at the bullfight. There are animals that see in colors or else why would evolution go to all of the trouble creating such colorful animals.

Answer 5

color vision in us humans and other vertebrate animals is due to the presence of specific receptor cells called CONES. All animals that possess cones in their retinas can see color to varying degrees.

Invertebrates, esp the arthropods, both insects and decapods have complex compound eyes that can see colors. Insects can see even more color details than we can. The Cephalopod eyes is very complex like ours (octopus, squid, cuttlefish) and they have very sophistocated color vision.

Answer 6

Some do. But not bulls and dogs. Bulls would charge at a green cloth equally well if handled in the same manner as red

Answer 7

Some. For example, whitetailed deer lack a certain kind of cone in their eyes so they can't see the color red or orange. Everything looks like a world of yellow and grays to them. I think dogs are similar.

Answer 8

Yes , if not how do bulls identify the colour red.

Answer 9

bulls see red. so yes.