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Are cows blind

Updated: 10/8/2023
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12y ago

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No, not all. They can see quite well, quite often better than humans can, and can often notice things much sooner or that are not obvious to us than we humans can.

Very few, if any, are born blind, but a fair few can become blind from maladies later in life, such maladies as cancer eye or untreated serious cases of pink-eye. IBR (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis) can also make cattle blind if not treated.

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Cows can most definitely see colour, they just cannot see it in the full spectrum like we can. Cattle are dichromatic, which means they only see two primary colours, not all three. These two primary colours are blue and yellow. Red (or reddish hues) is the only colour cattle cannot see.

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I have looked at many websites and they all say cattle are color blind but nothing about bison being color blind so the best estimate I can make is that bison are not color blind.

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Yes, some animals are color blind, including bulls and most nocturnal animals.

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Only certain livestock (Particularly bulls) are red-green colorblind, which means that they can not distinguish between the two colors.

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Not entirely. They are dichromatic (?) where they can see only blue and yellow.

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