Fact-check: “Cats can't see colors”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Multiple peer-reviewed studies — including behavioral experiments training cats to discriminate colors and electrophysiological measurements of their cone photoreceptors — establish that cats do see color, though with a narrower palette than humans. The scientific consensus, going back at least to the 1960s, is that cats are dichromats (or possibly even trichromats) with cone sensitivity peaks around 429–450 nm and 550–555 nm, allowing them to distinguish blues and yellow-greens. The Merck Vete…
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