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Animals see a secret world of colour

Many animals have better colour vision than humans and many have polarisation vision, which allows them to see a colour dimension invisible to humans.

Researchers found that many types of crustaceans, while colour blind, can use polarisation vision to navigate and escape predators – predators that don’t have the ability to see polarised light.

Read more at The University of Queensland

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