All dogs are colorblind. they only have 2 types of cones so they can differentiate blue and yellow but still would potentially struggle with stuff like light blue vs dark blue. red, orange, green aren’t visible to them at all. It’s similar to red green colorblindness in humans but not exactly. They have much stronger low light and peripheral vision though
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I don’t get it. Is the dog colourblind?
All dogs are colorblind. they only have 2 types of cones so they can differentiate blue and yellow but still would potentially struggle with stuff like light blue vs dark blue. red, orange, green aren’t visible to them at all. It’s similar to red green colorblindness in humans but not exactly. They have much stronger low light and peripheral vision though
So they don’t see in monochrome, like in the comic? Which makes the comic weird.
And when you call them colourblind isn’t that only by human standards? Aren’t all humans then colourblind by insect standards?
Dogs have dichromatic vision, meaning they can distinguish colors like blue and yellow, but they have trouble seeing colors like red and green.
Well no wonder I never see any dogs getting their drivers liscense!
But the comic is monochrome, not dichrome.
Because that’s what we were told in my time, when I was young, long time ago, in ancient time, that dogs are seeing in black & white