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Hummingbirds can identify at least eight colours that are invisible to humans because their eyes are able to detect ultraviolet light, study reveals

By: Luke Andrews For Mailonline
Date: June 15, 2020

Summary

... thinking that they had excellent colour vision. Any ideas about photo-luminescence would mean that they were even showier, even gaudier than we'd thought.' The scientists went to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory every summer for three years to...

Hummingbirds can identify at least eight colours that are invisible to humans because their eyes are able to detect ultraviolet light, study reveals — RMBL Knowledge Hub