Russian scientists proved that dogs see the world in color - Russian Newspaper

Russian scientists set up an experiment, proving that man’s best friend – dogs – are able to distinguish between shades of color and brightness.

However, as it turned out, pets perceive only a limited color range, but it’s better than to see the world in black and white.

Previously, scientists from the University of Washington found that dogs distinguish blue and yellow colors (red and green and there).

team of researchers from the Laboratory of sensory information processing in the Russian Academy of Sciences has decided to continue the study of American and colleagues conducted a new experiment, which involved eight different breeds of pets, reported NEWSru.com.

researchers placed a bowl of food in individual drawers, and above them hung the leaves of certain colors: dark yellow, dark blue, light yellow and blue. Dark and light shades were used to test the theory, which states that dogs distinguish objects only in terms of brightness.

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over a bowl containing raw meat hung dark yellow sheet. In the three experimental approaches have learned to associate a dark yellow color with meat and already knew exactly what to choose a bowl.

Then

dogs offered a choice between light yellow and blue colors to find out whether they are guided by the color or brightness is still on. As a result, dog selected light yellow, indicating that they are primarily responding to the color.

According to the authors of the experiment, the dogs distinguish the brightness of objects, but the ambient light is more focused on the colors.

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