Do rabbits see in black and white?

gdec1

One component of visual acuity is the ability to distinguish colors. There seems to be no information on color vision in rabbits, although on the basis of behavioral studies, some scientists speculate that rabbits can distinguish between blue and green, although they probably see these colors differently than we do. If the retinas of rabbits'eyes are similar to those of dogs, whose retinas have only two kinds of color sensitive cones instead of the three that human retinas have, and many fewer of them than do human eyes, then the spectrum of colors they can see is greatly restricted, and part of that spectrum is black and white. http://www.wisconsinhrs.org/Articles/What%20Do%20Rabbits%20See.htm Aug 02 06, 5:59 PM

zbeckabee

Rabbits are COLOR BLIND. This occurs because some of the rabbit's PHOTORECEPTORS called CONES, do not produce the same kind of color sensitive pigments that our eyes do. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may96/831689367.Zo.r.html Aug 02 06, 6:47 PM