Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do ... But because rod cells only have a single light-sensitive pigment, at night we see in ...
The presence of the tapetum can be observed at night when a pair of glowing eyes reflects back a flashlight or some other light source. (Interestingly, different animals have different color ...
Nocturnal geckos have superb vision in dim light - their eyes are 350 times more sensitive to colour at night than a human's (see for yourself with our animal vision interactive). Lacking eyelids, ...