do cats see better at night or at daytime?

Answer 1

It's my understanding that Cats have superb eye sight and do indeed see better at night, for they are predatory animals by nature, therefore giving them keen eye sight at night for hunting.

Answer 2

Mine sleep in the laundry room as I already have dogs in bed with me. One of the dogs can't leave my side. Anyway, they are very happy in there all have their own bed and space and spend daytime hours with everyone.It's the only way I can sleep. Tell your boyfriend an indoor cats on an average lives 3 time longer then a cat that goes in and out. There is no real reason for a cat to go outside.

Answer 3

Cats see better in daylight. Its retina isn't proportionately larger than ours, but it receives unusually high amounts in comparison to ours because the cornea, pupil-hole and lens are much larger. As a result, the lens and cornea lie relatively closer to the retina, So in order to focus the light sharply, their curvature has been increased. Another advantage of this design is that the cat's eyeball is rounder and shorter than ours giving it a wider angle of view than us. Humans lack the special light conserving mechanism built into the cat's eyes, known as the "tapetum lucidum". This reflective structure lies behind the retina, and is composed of up to 15 layers of special glittering cells which act like a very efficient mirror.The eye functions very much like a camera. Light passes through a movable aperature ( the pupil hole in the iris ) which controls the amount of light that enters, and is focused by a lens. Unlike a camera, when the lens move backward or forward to change focus, the lens in a cat's eye focuses by changing shape when tugged by muscles. Finally, the light falls on the retina ( the eyes equivalent to film ) which sends impulses to the interpretation centers of the brain via the optic nerve. Like our retina, a cat contains two kinds of receptor cells: rods and cones. Rods provide good night vision and sensitivity to low light, and cones give resolving power. A cat's eye contains relativively more rods and fewer cones than a human's. It is therefore more efficient at low light levels, but lacks detailed resolving power.

Answer 4

they see well in the night and in the daytime. the ajust their eyes so they can see in the dark and in the daytime. they become big and small it is very cool humans also do that but not as much

Answer 5

Like others said, they see well all the time. But they see better at night than us humans do.

Answer 6

Cats can see almost as well as humans can, and at times better. Cat vision is designed for detecting motion, useful for hunting. Like humans, cats have binocular vision, although not as well tuned as in humans. This means a cat most likely sees in 3-D; very useful for judging distance.

Cats have an elliptical pupil which opens & closes much faster than round types and allows for a much larger pupil size. This allows more light to enter the eye.

Cats appear to be slightly nearsighted, which would suggest their vision is tailored more for closer objects, such as prey, that they can capture within running distance. Objects farther than several hundred yards rarely interest a cat.

A cat relies on its extremely sensitive hearing and directional ear movement to locate the general location of prey, then targets and captures the prey using its keen eyesight. Cat vision is adapted to capture even the slightest movement. This makes the cat one of the most successful hunters on land.

Like ours, cats' eyes have two distinct types of light sensitive cells in the retina - rods and cones. Rods are the receptors that the eye uses for night time viewing and sudden movement. Cones are used during the daytime and process color information.There are about 25 rods to each cone (human eyes have four to one), and their nerve connections are arranged in such a way that stimuli to a large number of rods reinforce each other to trigger a signal in one nerve fibre. As a result, the response of many rods to very dim light is pooled, so that (when combined with the wide pupil aperture and the effect of the tapetum) far less light is needed for the cat to perceive objects than for humans.

Cats' eyes, as every motorist knows, shine when caught in a beam of light at night. This is due to the tapetum luvidum, a mirror like membrane that lines most of the back of the retina. It reflects the light passing through the rods... back through the rods a second time, this time in the opposite direction. The tapetum reflects any light not absorbed on its first passage through the retina. As a result, the retina's light sensitive cells receive a second stimulation, increasing the eye's sensitivity to dim light.The combination of elliptical pupils and the Tapetum permit cats to see extremely well in near darkness.

Answer 7

Cats can see good day or night only you can see good cat bright eyes in dark night.

Answer 8

Well i am not so sure,, but i have heard that cats see better at night

Answer 9

They see well all the time,however they do have better night vision than humans.

Answer 10

Jonela is right. Cats do see much better than we do at nighttime though. That's when feline naturally do their hunting. In the wild felines see better in darkness than there prey, antelope, zebra, etc.