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Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by jotm » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 2:54 PM UTC

Don't forget about the scientists who apparently took direct video output from a cat's brain - it looks like they have a facial pattern recognition similar to that of ours - what I mean is they look for the eyes/nose/mouth/etc and most likely see cat-like faces on other animals and humans (like we do when we think a dog is smiling). Interesting...

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by hjc89 » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/10/18/japan-has-two-islands-t...

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by ecopoesis » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 3:17 PM UTC

Scientists at Berkeley have actually recorded what cats see by scanning a vision pathway in their brain: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-1...

Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyY-UtyDZw

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by hellrich » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 3:23 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #22

eli wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prefer the Mail? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2462559/Nicko...

Both the DailyMail and PopSci websites reference this "deals" website as the source. So while the site doesn't look like official news, from what I can tell it seems to be the proper source.

I found it on http://www.spiegel.de/, which linked back to the seo-website.

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by thehme » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 3:24 PM UTC

ecopoesis wrote: post #33

Scientists at Berkeley have actually recorded what cats see by scanning a vision pathway in their brain: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-1... Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyY-UtyDZw

If this is really what our cats are seeing, no wonder they seem to be scared or annoyed by us sometimes. Also, no point of buying colorful toys since they can't appreciate the colors.

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by rachelbythebay » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 3:30 PM UTC

Try this instead:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/cats-eye-view/

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by GotAnyMegadeth » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #18

GotAnyMegadeth wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often have to shake my cat's biscuits before she'll eat them, even if she has just been eating them.

Hasn't anyone invented a "jiggling cat food bowl" yet?

She'd probably try to kill it

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by ChuckMcM » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 4:04 PM UTC

Cats and other animals can see different spectrum, which is useful to their hunting. Noting that raptors can see infrared so actually 'see' the thermals they are flying in makes a whole lot of sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

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Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by mikeweiss » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

ecopoesis wrote: post #33

Scientists at Berkeley have actually recorded what cats see by scanning a vision pathway in their brain: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-1... Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyY-UtyDZw

What the hell did they do to that cat! :-(

Re: What Do Cats See?

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Post by peter303 » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

I thought enhanced color vision developed for distinguishing plants. Primates eat lots of plants nad have been trichromatic. Cats and dogs are mostly meat eaters.