Rod-cone based color vision in seals under photopic conditions.

Abstract:

:Marine mammals have lost the ability to express S-cone opsin, and possess only one type of M/L-cone in addition to numerous rods. As they are cone monochromats they should be color blind. However, early behavioral experiments with fur seals and sea lions indicated discrimination ability between many shades of grey and blue or green. On the other hand, most recent training experiments with harbor seals under "mesopic" conditions demonstrated rod based color blindness (Scholtyssek et al., 2015). In our experiments we trained two harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and two South African fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) with surface colors under photopic conditions. The seals had to detect a triangle on grey background shown on one of three test fields while the other two test fields were homogeneously grey. In a first series of experiments we determined brightness detection. We found a luminance contrast of >3% sufficient for correctly choosing the triangle. In the tests for color vision the triangle was blue, green or yellow in grey surround. The results show that the animals could see the colored triangle despite minimal or zero brightness contrast. Thus, seals have color vision based on the contribution of cones and rods even in bright daylight.

journal_name

Vision Res

journal_title

Vision research

authors

Oppermann D,Schramme J,Neumeyer C

doi

10.1016/j.visres.2016.04.009

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-08-01 00:00:00

pages

30-40

eissn

0042-6989

issn

1878-5646

pii

S0042-6989(16)30038-4

journal_volume

125

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