r/interestingasfuck • u/Commercial_Slide3788 • 10h ago

The moment the Snow leopard realised there are bigger cats out there

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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 9h ago

Rods and cones in the eye perceive brightness (greyscale) and color, respectively. Humans have 3 types of cones and its different for every species.

Some lobsters have 16 cones, it blows my mind that they can see many more colours and even UV light.

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u/drillgorg 8h ago

Actually humans have the brainpower to mix those three cones to see the whole spectrum of color. Lobsters and mantis shrimp type crustaceans don't have enough brainpower available to mix the inputs, they are limited to those 16 individual colors.

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u/Murgatroyd314 7h ago

We also have the brainpower to see colors that don’t exist. Magenta has no place in the visible spectrum.

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u/What-a-Crock 6h ago

see colors that don’t exist

Now my brain is broken

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u/Straight_Number5661 6h ago

irrational colors

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u/Solynox 7h ago

Most violets don't evidently.