RE: Tree of Life: The Primal Trichromacy: Colour vision

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Tree of Life: The Primal Trichromacy: Colour vision

in steemstem •  7 years ago 

What about people who are colour blind? are primates unique in that?

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I guess colour blindness is in the eye of the beholder - so to speak. Most mammals are default colour blind compared to us, and we are all colour blind compared to animals with tetrachromacy (Birds, fish, insects, reptiles), and they in turn compared tot pentachromacy and so on.

A glance on google doesn't make it easy to see if animals can be colourblind compared to their own kind, but I see no reason why not; they can be deaf, blind, gay and albino, so I'm sure they have similar deficiencies in colour...

@mobbs, i get your point.