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By: Sophie Kluß
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While many still assume that dogs are color blind and can only see in black and white, a study back in 1989 provided clarity.
Dogs are color blind and short-sighted - that's what many dog owners still think.
But how the four-legged friends really perceive their surroundings amazes many dog owners.
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In a study published in 1989, scientists Jay Neitz, Timothy Geist and Gerald H. Jacobs from the University of California in Santa Barbara discovered how furry friends see the world when they let their trusty dog eyes wander.
Numerous other studies have since proven that dogs can actually see certain colors.
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Dogs are not color blind - what colors they can recognize
Dogs can see different colors, but their color spectrum differs significantly from that of humans: While humans can also perceive red colors, dogs only see shades of blue and yellow - more precisely, they can see their surroundings in shades of blue-violet and yellow-green .
“They could even see subtler differences in similar shades of blue and purple,” the
New York Times
wrote in 1989 regarding the study.
“But the dogs could not distinguish between colors ranging from greenish-yellow to orange to red,” the
NY Times
reports the US researchers.
The four-legged friends cannot recognize red and green tones - similar to people who are red-green blind.
An AI-generated image gives an idea of the colors in which dogs might perceive their environment.
© Marco Blanco Ucles/DALL-E (AI generated)
The experts at
hundebrille.eu
under owner Jacqueline Elze add shades of gray to the color spectrum that dogs can perceive.
A graphic of the colors dogs can perceive can be found here.
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So how exactly do dogs see?
1. The colors yellow, orange and green look the same to dogs.
2. However, dogs perceive red, blue and the various shades of purple differently.
3. Dogs see a mixture of the colors blue and green as white.
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Dogs are nearsighted – is that true?
What's really true: Compared to humans, dogs are not only more sensitive to light, but also more shortsighted, informs
tieraugenarzt.at
under the direction of Dr.
med.
vet.
Karin Holler.
While the veterinarian Gerhard Fasching describes that dogs cannot see clearly “objects that are closer than 30 to 50 centimeters,” the certified animal physiotherapist (specializing in dogs) Sabine Eschweiler-Volino states that dogs “everything that is more than “Six meters away” can be perceived slightly blurred.
The four-legged friends, on the other hand, can perceive the rapid movements of potential prey very well, even over greater distances of up to 900 meters.
Because of the position of their eyes, dogs' spatial vision is also significantly more limited than that of humans.