The world in color as animals see it. The result of the research, coordinated by Queen Mary University of London, is published in the journal Plos Biology.
This technological breakthrough could help us better understand how animals communicate with each other and how they move and interact in the environment around them. The device, made up of commercially available cameras assembled in a 3D printed casing, simultaneously records video in four wavelengths, corresponding to blue, green, red and UV. The data is then processed using software to produce a 92% accurate video of how these colors are perceived by the animals.