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Can pigs see in color?

Question #67698. Asked by yumchicken.
Last updated Jun 03 2021.

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Babba06
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Babba06

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Mostly. Apparently they have partial color sight. According to a study, they can see black, grey, white, blue, red, and brown but that they can’t detect green, yellow or orange.
A paper on Temple Grandin’s site, “Behavioral Principles of Livestock Handling” says that while humans can see the full color range, pigs and other farmed species are most sensitive to yellow-green and blue-purple light.

Leif Lykke presented a paper in Denmark this year that says pigs can see black, grey, white, blue, red, and brown but that they can’t detect green, yellow or orange.

link https://www.animalbehaviour.net/pigs/

They have rods and cones but not certain of the range of colours seen (satguru)

Response last updated by satguru on Jun 03 2021.
Jun 30 2006, 11:28 PM
lixxylu
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lixxylu

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They can see colors but have a hard time distinguishing adjacent spectrum colors.

Response last updated by Terry on Oct 08 2016.
Jul 01 2006, 8:41 AM
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