Why does a matador wave a red flag to enrage a bull? Don animals see in black and white?
Actually animals can see some color. http://www.journalofvision.org/1/2/2/art… Horses, like other ungulates, are active in the day, at dusk, dawn, and night; and, they have eyes designed to have both high sensitivity for vision in dim light and good visual acuity under higher light levels. Typically, daytime activity is associated with the presence of multiple cone classes and color-vision capacity.. Previous studies in other ungulates, such as pigs, goats, cows, sheep and deer, have shown that they have two spectrally different cone types, and hence, at least the photopigment basis for dichromatic color vision.. Mythbusters tested the myth “The color red can infuriate a bull and make them charge” it was busted. It’s not the color but movement that attracts the bull. And they also talk about a bull’s vision with an expert from the University of Phoenix they are NOT colorblind, they are dichromatic and “they
