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Tigers appear orange to humans but green to deer and wild boar due to colour vision differences. (lemmy.today)

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

They see 12 colors...only

I've seen it said that they gain in vision speed by saving on the complexity. Conversely, we don't properly see a baseball flying at us, but have machinery predicting its trajectory so the brain fills in the gaps.

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