Hummingbirds can see colors we can’t even imagine, according to study

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Hummingbirds can see an impressive array of colors that are invisible—or appear very different—to the human eye, scientists reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Our findings…suggest that these birds really are experiencing a whole range of colors we humans can only imagine,” says Mary Caswell Stoddard, an ornithologist at Princeton University. “We humans are really limited in how we understand and appreciate and can describe the color experience of birds and other animals.”

Stoddard and her team wanted to explore which “nonspectral” colors hummingbirds could discern, which they define as colors that an animal sees because their eye's cone cells react to very different parts of the color spectrum at the same time. 

Hummingbirds made ideal candidates for this investigation because they are sugar fiends that are naturally drawn to brightly colored flowers in search of nectar. For each experiment, the scientists set up two bird feeders—one filled with nutritious sugar water and the other plain water.

The researchers visited the site for three consecutive springs and performed 19 experiments that forced the birds to distinguish between a variety of different pairs of colors. They found that the hummingbirds could readily perceive colors from the visible light spectrum such as red, pure ultraviolet light, and different blends of UV and visible light such as ultraviolet mixed with red. 

Source: https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/hummingbird-color-vision-ultraviolet/

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I wonder if they have hummingbirds on Chromatica 

 

ACT II should be named

Chromatica Hummingbirds

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Gayest species award goes to

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iconic birds since 2010 wbk

 

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Amazing, so flower colors are even more beautiful that they already are and we don’t even notice 

Also, stream hummingbird heartbeat and her iconic opening line “You make me feel like I’m losing my virginity” 

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Bees too

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Pigeons and every bird practically are like that.

So interesting tho

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Omg I am so jealous