Biological Optics: Seeing Colours in the Dark
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The intensity threshold of colour vision has been behaviourally tested in birds; the results show that parrots lose colour vision in brighter light than humans.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009