• Question: Do you study animal’s sight as well as humans?

    Asked by to Michael on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Michael Kelly answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I haven’t studied animals’ vision as a job, but I am interested how chickens and dogs see. Mostly because I enjoy keeping chickens and dogs. Chickens have five types of photo-receptors while humans have three. This raises an interesting question about how chickens see colours, do they see more colours or are they better at telling similar colours apart?
      Lots of people use mice to study human vision but I’ve not been involved in that, and I don’t think I would like to be either.

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