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Cuttlefish achieve precise color-matching camouflage despite lacking which specific visual ability?
Answer
Color vision
Cuttlefish eyes contain only a single type of photoreceptor, meaning they cannot perceive color, yet they still mimic the colors of their surroundings using skin cells guided by pattern-recognition neurons.
💡 Did you know?
Cuttlefish can change skin color and texture in 200 milliseconds despite having no color vision, guided entirely by pattern-recognition neurons in their skin.
Other options people guess
- Depth perception
- Motion detection
- Peripheral vision
Topics
- cuttlefish
- camouflage
- vision
- marine-biology
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