Are Dogs Color Blind?
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Are dogs colorblind? Yes, although not in the way most people think.
‘Colorblind’ is a somewhat subjective term biased toward trichromatic vision–the kind of sight most human beings enjoy. But our electromagnetic range is not the pinnacle of color perception. From a bird’s perspective, it is humans that are colorblind–we could never perceive the vast complexity of hues available to denizens of the air.
Similarly, dogs could never perceive all the colors humans see, but that doesn’t mean they see all in black-and-white; it just means their palette is more limited than that of humans.