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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that why cats can be so ginger and still good hunters? My orange stands out so much in the garden, but maybe to dichromatic mice he's super stealthy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elsewhere in the thread, someone said non-primate mammals (like mice) are dichromic (can't see orange), but birds are quadchromic (see even more colors than trichromics like primates). Is your cat only a good mouse-hunter, and comparatively a bad bird-hunter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

He is! 95% mice, very occasional birds. I had attributed that to birds other advantages (mostly being able to harass him by flying at him but not low enough he can reach) but perhaps it's also the colour!