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Good Question think it's because of the predator prey relationships. Like rabbits are colorblind, because they only eat grass and occasional bugs. Cats need color to see the birds and mice and others to distinguish their food source. Like the coral snakes. An animal that is prey to it has color to see their predator.

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Some animal species can only see in black and white, some can only see movement or heat and some even have poor developed eyesight or none. This is a form of adaptation that has evolved to best serve the species. Owls for example can see perfectly with low light where mice can only see movement. So to hunt the owl needs good eyesight and natural selection takes care of letting owls survive that have the best developed sight. Mice have developed a keen sense of smell and use it to forage for food.

Humans can see colour because we have inherited that from our hunter gatherer ancestors and simians that need to see if fruit are ripe. on the other hand humans lack the hearing of mice and other animals that can communicate in the ultrasonic range

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No, dogs for example can't see all colors.

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As you are a mammal the question is meaningless unless you think everyone is colour blind.

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