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Animals See in Monochrome
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It's a common misconception that animals, especially dogs and cats, see in only black and white. This is based on very old and outdated research. Science Marches On, with more modern research indicating that different species see differently and some animals can even see colours that humans can't. Domestic dogs, for example, aren't completely colorblind but they see colours less clearly than humans. Dogs don't differentiate orange and yellow well, but they can tell various shades of blue and green.note Dogs are dichromatic, while humans are trichromatic. That is, dogs only have two types of cones (blue, yellow), while humans have three (red, blue, green). So, while dogs don't see only in black and white, they are sort of red-green colorblind. "Sort of" because yellow is a combination of red and green light. Meanwhile, cats are also trichromatic, but the three wavelengths they are sensitive to can't combine into the full range of human color vision. Despite it being inaccurate, fiction hasn't caught onto this. Many jokes and references revolve around dogs and other animals seeing in monochrome and suffering from Colorblind Confusion. Sub-Trope to Artistic License – Biology. Contrast with Unexpectedly Human Perception. |
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The Far Side: One dog is shown asking God to let him and the rest of his family see in color in his nightly prayer. | |
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In All Dogs Go to Heaven, Charlie and Itchy have a Wire Dilemma, but since they're dogs and can't see color, they don't know which one to cut. They end up cutting the wrong one...and it turns out to be a water main. | |
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In several episodes of The Simpsons we get to see the world through the eyes of the family dog Santa's Little Helper. These POV shots are shown in black and white. | |
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Downplayed in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. The Liese twins, being shapeshifting cats, are not outright colorblind, but they are implied to have a much more narrow range of color vision than humans given that their Nanoha and Fate disguises get the colors of the Barrier Jackets wrong. | |
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Teacher's Pet: The episode "Scott's Honor" portrays Scott/Spot as seeing in shades of yellow. Although the episode does point out that dogs have some color vision, the writers didn't know that dogs can clearly distinguish yellow and blue. | |
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In Freefall Florence, a wolf, is colorblind. She was genetically engineered that way to make room for more important improvements to her vision. | |
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It's mentioned in Littlest Pet Shop (2012) that Zoe (a dog) can't see red. It's likely going for this trope, but it is actually Accidentally-Correct Writing as dogs don't see red. | |
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Mike the Ox from Sonic Boom is colorblind, as revealed in the episode, "Bro-Down Showdown". When he and Knuckles are paired up on the titular Show Within a Show, when asked what color Knuckles is, Mike incorrectly guesses that Knuckles is green, even though he's red. When a red light flashes afterwards, indicating an incorrect answer, Mike asks if the light was green. | |
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When seeing through the dog protagonist Jake's eyes in Dog's Life everything is Deliberately Monochrome except for the brightly coloured scents (which are Stylized for the Viewer). This trope is downplayed as the colors are very faded, rather than truly grayscale. | |
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One episode of The Cramp Twins has a few scenes where the viewer sees through the monkeys' eyes, and they see in monochrome, though unusually for this trope, they see only in brown instead of gray. While color vision in new-world monkeys (like the ones shown here) isn't as great as that of humans and other old-world monkeys, they can still see shades of blue and green. | |
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Animorphs: According to Rachel who morphed into a cat early on, cats aren't so much colorblind as they are indifferent: "Oh, that thing's red. Who cares?" Smell and motion are much more important. | |
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Shrek: When Donkey is told by Fiona to retrieve a blue flower with red thorns to help Shrek, he stumbles upon bushes full of said flowers and mutters that his job would be much easier if he wasn't colorblind. Earlier in the film, he calls Shrek a "mean, green fighting machine." (Equines can't see red, but can see green well enough.) | |
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Rugrats: The episode "A Dog's Life" features several POV shots of Tommy's dog Spike seeing the world in black-and-white (as well as humans speaking in gibberish). | |
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One joke in Cats & Dogs revolves around dogs being unable to stop a bomb because they can't differentiate between the wire colours. | |
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In Moving Pictures, Gaspode the Wonder Dog says he saw in monochrome before he was magically uplifted, and that looking at his dinner afterwards came as a nasty shock. | |
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In Martha Speaks, Martha is a dog who can't tell the difference between red and green. | |
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At the end of Up, Carl and Russel are playing a game of spotting two different colored cars, and Dug joins in by saying "gray one". | |
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In Sorcery 101 werewolves are colorblind. | |
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Silverwing: Kenneth Oppel mentions in the author's note that bats see in black-and-white, and points out that he never mentions any other color in the book. It has since been discovered that at least some bats do see in color. | |
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It's shown that at least Spearow sees this way in Pokémon: The Series (whereas some other species see colors enough to fit Bull Seeing Red). If they're anything like their real-life bird counterparts, they should see in full color. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Inverted in "The Paris Trip," where Bolt, Mittens, and Berlioz are depicted as having a realistic amount of color vision for their species, more limited than humans but not fully color-blind. Mittens and Berlioz, for example, are able to see the blue stained glass at Sainte-Chapelle. | |
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Dead End: Paranormal Park: When human Barney and talking dog Pugsley are trapped in a black-and-white TV show, when Barney asks why everything is in black and white, Pugsley says it looks no different to him. | |
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Family Guy has a few Furry Reminder jokes about Brian (a Funny Animal dog) seeing in black-and-white. However, a few episode contradict this as in “The Cleveland-Loretta-Quagmire”, Brian can apparently see people’s skin colors as he describes the person Loretta was having an affair with (Quagmire) as a skinny white guy. | |
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