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To: King Prout
Interesting topic.

What predators other than other colour-sighted dinosaurs (assuming they like their bird ancestors were color-sighted,)
preyed on adult dinosaurs?

Not directly related as they weren't around yet but
Canines are not colour-sighted, how about felines?

77 posted on 09/17/2005 8:28:15 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Osama Bin Laden aka Abu Khanzier)
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To: ASA Vet

IIRC, felines have limited color vision and excellent BW vision.

I don't know about the vision of arboreal snakes.

Bear in mind that camouflage is as important for hunters as it is for prey. perhaps more so.

Bear in mind also that I am addressing the earliest advantages of the earliest adaptation of scales into fringed (slightly feather-like) scales, that I am NOT addressing the varied uses of much later adaptation of fully-developed avian feathers into flights, plumage, and sexual display exaggerations.


82 posted on 09/17/2005 8:49:53 AM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: ASA Vet
Hey, as long as you got one type of rod and one type of cone, which respond to a different range of light frequencies, you have all you need for "color" vision.

The problem arises in differentiating between two colors of similar frequency, accounting for intensity, etc.

88 posted on 09/17/2005 9:20:02 AM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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