Natures wonders: Some ants see color (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 14:40 (3235 days ago) @ David Turell

Australian bull ants forage at night and see color:-"In a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers Dr Yuri Ogawa and Dr Jan Hemmi from UWA's School of Animal Biology show for the first time that the Australian bull ants (like humans) have three types of photoreceptors that are sensitive to different colours (UV, Blue and Green) and therefore the potential for trichromatic colour vision.-"Photoreceptors are the cells in the eye that are sensitive to light. This means that their colour vision is likely to be as good as that of humans and old world primates and significantly better than that of other mammals such as dogs, cats or wallabies."-
 Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-ants-vision-robot-technology.html#jCp


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