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I read in a book that dogs can only see yellow, blue, and gray. It also said monkeys can see all colors. I don't believe the part about the dogs. If that was true, that would be so sad!!
Well, I'll be watching to check if this makes the Chatterbox! REALLLY REALLY hope it does.
Well, I'll be watching to check if this makes the Chatterbox! REALLLY REALLY hope it does.
submitted by Not Telling, age 10, Middle of Nowhere
(April 11, 2017 - 4:56 pm)
(April 11, 2017 - 4:56 pm)
Hello Not Telling! I'm a huge dog lover, and have been reading dog books and studying them pretty much since I was old enough to read. XD I'm not sure if the book you read was right or not, but here's what I know:
Dogs have a really good sense of smell. Some number of thousands times better than humans (I think. I forgot the exact number. O.O), but their eyesight isn't as good. Scientists used to think dogs saw in only black and white, but studies now show that they can see a variety of colors, even colors humans can't see! I can't even imagine a color other than those in the light spectrum! Another thing is, dogs have great hearing AND smell. Their sight isn't as good as their other senses, so even if they go blind, it isn't nearly as hard fir dogs to be blind as it is for humans, because they can still navigate with their sense of smell and hearing. I think that dogs can see yellow, blue, nad grey, but I'm not sure if this is ALL they can see. I hope this helps! If you have any other dog-related questions, just ask me!
(April 13, 2017 - 8:06 am)
(April 13, 2017 - 8:07 am)
(April 13, 2017 - 8:15 pm)
Interesting! Now that we are talking about colour, may I add something a little bit off the subject?
How would you know if you were colour blind if you were like that from birth? How do we know we are not all seeing colours differently? It is difficult to explain a colour unless we point to a tree and say that colour is green! But if we always saw the tree as the colour red, how would we know that that colour is not what everyone else sees it as?
Sorry, I know we are talking about dogs, but that really interests me.
Anywho, not telling, I agree! If it is true, that would be sad, but I heard that bees, or something, see more colours than us, but we dont feel upset or sad. Dogs can never know that we see more colours, so they probably don't feel sad.
(April 13, 2017 - 9:51 pm)
My dad is colorblind. It's fun to draw a picture using random colors, then show it to him, and see if he notices anything wrong with it.
(April 16, 2017 - 10:52 am)
Like LilyPad's comment, this isn't really about dogs, but it relates to the subject of seeing color.
Once, somewhere, I read that some women can see one or two more colors than everyone else. At first, I thought, Wow, that would be awesome! What if I see more colors than everybody else? But then I realized, that would be my normal. I wouldn't feel particularly special. I probably wouldn't know that not everyone saw things the way I did. And if someone pointed to a tree, and said, "that's green", but I didn't see it as their green, I would still know the color that I saw as green.
Just something to ponder for you guys.
(April 14, 2017 - 7:47 am)
This reminds me of those arguments where one person thinks it's red and the other person thinks it's pink, or purple and magenta, or blue and turqouise. I think this partly has to do with color vocabulary. Like, my dad would be unlikely to think of the words magenta or cyan.
Off topic, but this is an interesting conversation. Thanks, Not Saying!
(April 16, 2017 - 11:02 am)
This isn't about dogs but it's still about animals and eyesight. We have a bird named Sky who's a budgie and apperently when budgies watch tv they see all the seperate pictures instead of a smooth movement like humans do.
(May 7, 2017 - 7:28 am)
If dogs can only see blue, yellow and grey then they must be Michigan fans. Go Blue!
(May 7, 2017 - 7:30 am)
(May 7, 2017 - 8:00 pm)
TREES ARE GREEN?
yeah, duh.
Well, their color varies. Green and brown and gray and red.
redd?!
Red maples, autumm... yeah! Red!
*I see colors!* *I see bananas and apples and bones and people and trees which are pink and...*
Um...
trees aren't pink.
*I don't care!*
I don't really think dogs see colors, but Banjo *Me!* *Me!* *Me!* thinks he can...
(June 22, 2017 - 7:35 pm)
I think I can see extra colors...
(July 16, 2017 - 10:50 am)
Hate to break the bad news, but dogs CAN only see blue-violet, yellow, and then everything else appears in varying shades of gray unless it's white or black, because those are technically opposites of color, even thought I consider black a color. I know, it's super sad, but... it's true.
(November 3, 2017 - 6:19 pm)