Nature & Environment

Are dogs able to see in color ?

By T.K. Randall
July 23, 2013 ·  28 comments

Image Credit: Bogdan Giuşcă Early tests in to dogs' vision seemed to suggest that their ability to discern colors was no better than that of a colorblind human and that distinguishing colors was not crucial to their everyday activities. Now however a research team in Russia lead by Anna Kasparson of the Russian Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that dogs do indeed use color as a cue to differentiate objects.

In a series of experiments colored markers were placed above a number of feedboxes. Only one of the feedboxes was unlocked, prompting the dogs to identify based on color which one it was. The results indicated that the dogs were able to identify the correct feedbox based on its color up to 70 percent of the time.

Source: Discover Magazine | Comments (28)

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