Fact-check: “Cats can't see colors”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Decades of behavioral and physiological research consistently show cats do perceive some colors — they are dichromatic, meaning they have two functional cone types with peak sensitivities near 460 nm and 560 nm, allowing them to distinguish wavelengths in the blue and yellow-green range. A 2016 neutral-point study (Clark & Clark, Experimental Eye Research) directly demonstrated this using stimuli that controlled for brightness, finding cats behave like red-green colorblind humans rather than an…
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