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  2. What colors can cats see? Here's how your pet perceives the ...

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    From velvety purples to fiery reds, many people can see a spectrum of vivid colors via the human eye. Others, however, may have limited hue perception due to certain conditions.. Animals, on the ...

  3. Cat senses - Wikipedia

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    While these improve the ability to see in darkness and enable cats to see using roughly one-sixth the amount of light that humans need, they appear to reduce net visual acuity, thus detracting when light is abundant. A cat's visual acuity is anywhere from 20/100 to 20/200, which means a cat has to be at 6 metres to see what an average human can ...

  4. What colors can cats see? A vet reveals the answer (and it ...

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    "Cats can see some color but they don’t see the full spectrum, so they are less able to differentiate various shades and tones," MacMillan explains. "They see color via special photoreceptive ...

  5. Can Cats See Color?

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    Cats' vision is not black and white. Here's the truth about whether cats can see color—and how their vision differs from ours in other ways. The post Can Cats See Color? appeared first on Reader ...

  6. Flicker fusion threshold - Wikipedia

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    As long as the modulation frequency is kept above the fusion threshold, the perceived intensity can be changed by changing the relative periods of light and darkness. One can prolong the dark periods and thus darken the image; therefore the effective and average brightness are equal. This is known as the Talbot-Plateau law. [2]

  7. Cat coat genetics - Wikipedia

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    In cats with orange fur, phaeomelanin (red pigment) completely replaces eumelanin (black or brown pigment). [2] This gene is located on the X chromosome. The orange allele is O, and non-orange is o. Males can typically only be orange or non-orange due to only having one X chromosome.

  8. Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia

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    Animal patterns of activity sometimes change during migration due to changes in environmental conditions. Mule deer are crepuscular, but they are only active at dusk before and during migration. In the spring they are only active at dawn because the snow is at its hardest, so it is easier for the deer to move without sinking in the snow. [9]

  9. Why do cats blink? And does blinking slowly help with feline ...

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    You can indeed. The slow blink is a potent form of cat communication, and if you're in the receiving end of one it's only polite to return the compliment.