how we test some animals’ colorblindedness

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… and also how we can be sure about that data, considering that we humans don’t see all colors ourselves?

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Some animals? When you ask that do you mean a single animal in particular or a species? The way species colour perception was tested was in the 60s to 80s when animal testing was a little more open than currently. The were able to open the animals head and insert probes to detect brain activity, they would then restrain the animal to focus on a fixed area and then stimulate it with lights and colours to see what they could detect. I remember watching an old video on it in highschool where they also showed that they did the same with animals to test heat perception and a few other things.

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