We possess the same binocular vision as cats. However, our eyes are placed laterally parallel on our oblong-shaped face, giving us a slightly reduced fixed field of vision when compared to that of cats. The eyes of a cat are placed marginally to either side of its narrow face. Our overlapping vision covers roughly 210 degrees whereas a cat’s is roughly285 degrees.
Can Cats See Better Than Us?
August 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Cats: Physiology
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1 James Pieschel // Sep 17, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I was playing with my old cat when I decided to test her night vision. I got her in the darkest part of the room where I could not see anything. It wasn’t even a serious challenge for her.
Another time I was teasing a cat across the street by being perfectly still and call out. It was driving the cat nuts because it could not see me even though I would have been in plane site to a human.
Humans are visual animals and can see colors. We also have flat faces with a rigid bone structure behind our eye sockets, This allows the more advanced ape sand man to resolve objects better than other lower apes and other mammals Added to that we have a much larger brain that allows us to identify objects by shape and color. The cat was limited to looking for movement..
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