Tetrachromacy

  • What do Birds See ?
  • a normal human can see up to 1 million colors.
  • Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels(cone cells) for conveying color information.
  •  In tetrachromatic organism the sensory color space is four dimensional.
  • to match the sensory effect of arbitrary chosen spectra of light within their visible spectra atleast four different primary colors are required.
  • fish, bird, amphibians, reptiles and insects exhibits tetrachromacy.
  • these organisms are able to distinguish color  that appear identical to human beings.
  • what does the world looks like through birds eyes?
  • birds can see the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum, they can also able to see the electromagnetic fields.
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