Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 29, 2012

I’ve read that dogs do see some color.

Now, this one would be unintentionally funny if they’d sent it out to be colored.

PacoP – that made me laugh.

There seem to be some gray areas in his research.

That’s using the little gray cells…

In a double rainbow, the colors are reversed – Really Gray, Darker Gray, etc….

All placental mammals evolved from one mammal that survived the Chicxulub meteorite. It was nocturnal, so it saw with only two primary colors, red and blue. Only some apes, including us, have evolved a third primary color.

..and Linda Gray

I used to have a dog that was red like a fox and I thought that was an odd coloration, until I walked her outside around dusk. Then, the colors start becoming more grayish, and she was invisible among the grass and bushes, whereas my black dog stood out because he was too dark to blend in until it became completely dark. So, maybe there is some logic in colors and camouflage that we don’t see, but works for the color-blind.

Joel Grey

Dogs also see yellow and blue. They just can’t see green and red.

Dorian Grey

We get the ability to see blue and yellow from one-cell bacteria, who found it useful to know when the sun was directly above, (yellow-that could kill the bacteria) and when the sun was not (blue-safe to come to the surface of the water).

My ex was a real B-I (female dog), but I don’t think she was color blind.

Oh so that’s what 50 Shades of Gray is about!