How Birds See a Hidden Pattern-Rich Spectrum
A flower that looks uniformly yellow to a human can split into high‑contrast zones under a bird’s gaze. Many birds possess tetrachromatic vision, adding a fourth cone cell tuned to ultraviolet wavelengths to the three cones that most humans use. This extra photoreceptor reshapes the visual information that reaches the avian brain.At the physical level, ultraviolet reflectance and absorption on pet...More
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