can animals distinguish colours?

Answer 1

Some can. They have to have cones in their retinas to be able to do it, though. Many species that depend upon fruit as a main portion of their diets can detect vivid colors. Examples include....

Primates (including humans)
Many birds. Especially colorful tropical ones. Some animals, like birds, that see in color have also adapted to use colored plumage to attract mates.

Animals that don't depend on fruit as a major portion of their diets usually do not see in color, they have only rods in their retinas. Black and white works much better in dim light and is the better scenario for either hunting or avoiding predators if you don't need color to see fruit.

Answer 2

the part in the eye that is found in humans that is missing if you are color blind, scientists have found, is missing in most animals.

thats kinda confusing.

hopefully this is more specific and makes more sense;

Cones are the part of the eye that sense color and they need more light than rods to work well. Cones are most helpful in normal or bright light. The retina has three types of cones - red, green, and blue - to help you see different ranges of color. Together, these cones can sense combinations of light waves that enable our eyes to see millions of colors.

anyway, the cone in each eye is missing in most animals. which is what leads scientists to believe that animals are color blind.

we can, however, never know, since there is no way to be a dog or a cat for a day.

hope this was helpful
good luck!

Answer 3

The ability to distinguish colors varies among animals. Humans are actually pretty good at it, dogs and cats are far less sensitive to colors than we are.

Answer 4

Yes, they can.

Most mammals have two types of conical photo receptors in their eyes. Primates (and a few others) have three types. Thus, for mammals, humans have very good color vision.

Dogs and cats, and bears and bats have only two types of color sensitive cells in their retinas. This has lead us to believe they're color blind. They're not color blind, just not able to distinguish colors as well as us.

Birds, on the other hand have four different types of color receptive cells. They're sensitive to "ultra-violet" wave lengths that we can not see.

Answer 5

You will need to be more specific.

Most reptiles can see in color.

Most mammals cannot.

Most insects can see in color.

Most diurnal birds (awake during the day) can see color

Most nocturnal birds (awake at night) cannot.

Answer 6

Many can, but some can't. If you have a specific animal in mind, look it up.

Answer 7

a lot can, but animals like dogs cannot

Answer 8

some can see colors others can't

Answer 9

quite a lot can.