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Famous example: Ragnar Granit studied color vision in the cat for 10 years. It turned out cats are colorblind. He carried on and later was awarded the Nobel Pri
by periheli0n 4y ago
Famous example: Ragnar Granit studied color vision in the cat for 10 years. It turned out cats are colorblind. He carried on and later was awarded the Nobel Prize for related research.
- dekhn 4y agoCats aren't really colorblind, they just have reduced color perception compared to humans, but still are sensitive to many hues. In fact that's exactly what his paper in 1943 on cat vision said: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1943.tb02050.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1716....