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Wild Specials – Sighted Big Game

All about gross game vision.

Sight Large game

In terms of eyesight of Grofwild, following analysis

Brightness

The eyes of wildlife are highly adapted to night vision. Vision within the eye is determined by Rods, which provide brightness, and Cones, which provide color. In Wild, the number of rods (brightness) is much greater than the number of cones (color). Thus, Wild has better Night Vision than Color Recognition. Which of course makes sense given the way of life of Wild.

Motion

Given the placement of the eyes, sideways on the head, most big game species have a very wide field of vision. Which naturally increases their panoramic vision and alertness. Because of this wide vision, they naturally sacrifice perception of details. Vision is therefore more determined by movement and contrast.

Field of view

The field of view is very wide (about 340 °), mainly due to the laterally placed eyes. However, to see three-dimensionally you need 2 eyes. Thus, three-dimensional vision (distances) is limited to the small area of overlapping vision of both eyes.

Estimating distances, for example, is compensated for by the Smell. By analogy, animals smell distances as we see them, but they see as poorly as we can smell.

Sensitivity of color

In the large game, Deer have only two types of cones (Color vision):

  • Sensitive to short waves: max sensitivity at 497 nm
  • Sensitive to center waves: max sensitivity at 540 nm

Because of this, animals cannot see colors such as orange or red.

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