title: Colour vision: colouring the dark.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. m.f.land@sussex.ac.uk
authors.forename: Michael F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Land
authors.forename: Daniel C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Osorio
mesh_terms: 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