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No - no mammal can, unless it's a human with night vision googles. However, in common with many nocturnal predators, wolves are equipped with an organ known as the tapetum lucidum inside their eyes. This serves to concentrate and reflect what light is available to the retina, giving them night vision far better than that enjoyed by humans who do not have the tapetum lucidum and allowing them to effectively hunt in conditions that appear almost total darkness to human eyes - this is also why cats can hunt at night.
Many snakes can hunt in total darkness, as they are equipped with heat sensing organs. Even if the snake is entirely unable to see, these will allow it to detect, track and accurately strike at prey - even blind snakes can feed themselves perfectly satisfactorily in this way.
Bees, on the other hand, can see ultraviolet which is at the opposite end of the spectrum to infrared and is also invisible to humans - many types of flower have ultraviolet patterns which act like the lights at an airport to guide the landing bee towards the pollen and nectar within.
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Is night vision and infrared vision the same?
No, night vision is the ability to see in low light condition and infrared vision is the capability of biological or artificial systems to detect infrared radiation. The terms thermal vision and thermal imaging, are also commonly used in this context since infrared emissions from a body are directly related to their temperature: hotter objects emit more energy in the infrared spectrum than colder ones.
How does the em spectrum effect what you see?
See:What_is_a_visible_spectrum
Which animal can see the violet spectrum?
pigs
What animals can see microwaves?
There aren't specifically any animals that we have discovered that can see microwaves. However, bees are able to see ultraviolet radiation and snakes infrared.
Historical origin and domestication of the dog?
stone age men were the first to train wolves to see if they could be domesticated
Does all molecules have infrared spectrum?
All molecules have an infrared spectrum.
What is 300 GHz - 4000 GHz frequency spectrum?
Part of the infrared spectrum, called "Far Infrared".300 GHz is approximately where high-frequency radio waves turn into infrared light.300,000 GHz is where infrared turns into visible light.List of frequency spectra: See related link.
Does infrared radiation penetrate through smoke?
Yes, long-wave infrared will penetrate even very dense smoke. That's why thermal imagers are effective in firefighting. For instance, you can feel the heat (infrared spectrum) through smoke, but you cannot usually see through smoke (visible spectrum).
What electromagnetic spectrum can be used to see hidden planets?
The entire visible spectrum plus the infrared and ultraviolet. They are trying to obscure the stars light and see the faint reflections of any planets nearby.
Why do you see only a small part of light?
Because our eyes have developed to see the visual spectrum, we need special equipment to see infrared or ultraviolet.
What region of the electromagnetic spectrum is 1100nm?
It lies in infrared region of electromagnetic spectrum.
Why do graphs help explain why humans cannot see colors that fall in the ultraviolet or infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum?
Because we can't see the colors on the spectrum so we have to use a graphto show the colors.
How does the wavelength of the infared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum differ from that of the visible portion of the spectrum?
I have no clue Laugh out loud
Different between led infrared led?
Both are light emitting diodes, but an infrared led emits infrared light in the electromagnetic spectrum. With the naked eye, humans can't see infrared light but many cameras can. Infrared leds are used in remote controls and many other applications.
What does infrared measure?
Infrared measures thermal radiation, or heat In a object/body -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above is not quite correct. The "infrared" is the name given to a part of the electromagnetic spectrum - light (that humans can not see but can feel) that exists beyond the red light color we can see. This colored light is emitted by warm objects and we also call it "heat". Just as there is a rainbow of colors in the light we can see which relates to the energy of the emitting source, there are different colors of infrared light and these characteristic how hot the emitting source is. Thus measurement of the infrared spectrum can tell you how hot something is.
Are infrared waves sound waves?
No; sound is a mechanical wave, infrared is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
How broad is the infrared spectrum?
The infrared spectrum stretches from about 700 nm to about 1 mm wavelength. In terms of the number of frequency doubles (think octave), this range is about 8.9 times the breadth of the visible light spectrum.
