Profiles a series of animals with unusual eyes, and explains how such animals use their uniquely evolved eyes to gain essential information about the biological world.
The Secret Language of Color
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Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.
Inside of a Dog: what dogs see, smell, and know
Call Number: 636.7 HOR
Do you want to know how dogs see? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.
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NPR news article on scientists' study: Scientists have now done the first comprehensive study of three kinds of pupils. The shape of the animal's pupil, it turns out, is closely related to the animal's size and whether it's a predator or prey.
Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World
The Secret Language of Color
Inside of a Dog: what dogs see, smell, and know
