Colour vision: colouring the dark.
Humans lose colour vision at night and it has often been assumed that this happens to other animals as well. It is not true of nocturnal moths, however: a recent study has shown that the elephant hawk moth makes use of trichromatic colour vision when seeking flowers by starlight.
Land
Michael F
MF
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. m.f.land@sussex.ac.uk
Osorio
Daniel C
DC
D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003624:Darkness; D006801:Humans; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology