FNX Magokiler Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 Although it may not seem like it at first glance, the world according to domestic cats is very different from the one we inhabit. To put ourselves in the paws of a cat, we first have to understand how it experiences the world. Although cats use the same senses as humans (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch), they understand and process their information very differently. But knowing that they have some senses tantalizingly similar to ours can help us live more harmoniously with our furry friends. Here's how to learn more about how your cat works so you can develop a better connection. View Like humans, cats use their sight to see the world around them and hunt for their next snack. But the differences between human eyes and cat eyes mean we see the world very differently. Although the precision with which a cat swoops in the dark may make you think it has built-in night vision goggles, the truth is that cats need some light. But while a human's night vision is dubious at best, the dark is the time when cats shine (metaphorically speaking, of course). Millions of years of evolution have made it more likely that many cats are active and hunt at dusk and dawn. Light enters the eye through the cornea, the round, transparent surface of the cat's eye. The cornea focuses light onto the retina, which lines the inside of the back of the eye. The cat's cornea is large and dome-shaped, allowing its eyes to collect the maximum number of photons, a key adaptation for life in low light. Cats' pupils are long and vertical, narrowing to a slit in broad daylight and expanding 300-fold when it gets dark (human pupils only grow 15 times). The back of a cat's eyes has a layer called tapetum lucidum, which reflects unabsorbed light on the retinas, an adaptation to help the cat see in low light, and causes eyeglow, the glow seen when gives light in the darkness. Their peripheral vision is also better than ours. Other aspects of feline vision are not as clear. Because their retinas have fewer cones (the photoreceptors that perceive color), cats are thought to see the world less vibrantly and with fewer nuances than humans. These cones are also responsible for the sharpness of vision, which is why a cat's vision is blurrier, despite its superior low-light vision. What cats can see from 6 meters away, we see from 30 meters. But this does not stop them. Cats respond more readily to movement than to the intricate details and colors of an image, so they are not hampered by their reduced color vision. Sound Cats' triangular ears act like furry little satellite dishes. Their ear pinnae, or pinnae, can rotate independently forward, backward, and sideways to locate a sound. https://www.nationalgeographic.es/animales/2024/01/como-ve-gato-domestico-mundo
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