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Do dogs see in black and white?


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Dogs Dogs and cats have vision with a very limited color spectrum. Blue is visible but red, green, and yellow all appear similar.

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Dogs do see in color,but not to the same extent as humans.The photoreceptor used for color vision is the cone, and there are MORE?

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Dogs don't see in black and white, they actually see in shades of blue and red. ChaCha!

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Recent studies indicate that dogs do possess and use color vision, but not to the same degree that humans do.

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Dogs see in color but in a more limited range than that seen by normal humans. Dogs see violet, indigo, blue, yellow, and red.

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Dogs do see color, but in a more limited range than that seen by normal humans. Green, Yellow, and Orange all look alike to dogs

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Experiments have showed that dogs do see color, but in a more limited range than that seen by normal humans.

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No! But their color vision is limited. Thanks for asking ChaCha!

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