Misconception About A Dog's Color Perception

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A common misconception about a dog’s color vision is that they see their world in only black, white, and shades of gray. Although their perception of color is limited, dogs do discriminate between objects based on their hue. Due to having only two cones, their color vision is limited, but what they do see are shades of yellow, such as grayish brown (combination of yellow and blue), dark yellow, light yellow, grayish yellow, light blue and dark blue. Humans are trichromats, which means that we process color with three color vision, and have three types of color receptor cones in the retina to do so – red, green and blue. On the other hand, dogs have been found to have a dichromatic color perception. This means that dogs have only two color

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