Fact-check: “Cats can't see colors”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Multiple peer-reviewed studies and veterinary sources confirm that cats do have color vision — they are dichromats who see primarily along a blue-yellow axis, with blues and yellow-greens most distinct and reds/oranges appearing grayish. The 1954 paper 'Absence of Color Vision in Cat' that originally supported this claim has been substantially contradicted by decades of subsequent research, including behavioral discrimination studies and neural pathway analyses. The claim that cats 'can't see c…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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