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Visual perception in animals plays an important role in the animal kingdom, most importantly for the identification of food sources and avoidance of predators. For this reason, blindness in animals is a unique topic of study.

In general, nocturnal or subterranean animals have less interest in the visual world, and depend on other sensory modalities. Visual capacity is a continuum, with humans falling somewhere in the center.

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Blindness in animals

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Animals in the Bible

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Gene therapy for color blindness

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Dog anatomy

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Change blindness

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factors in avoiding change blindness. Though comparatively little research has been done on change blindness in other animals, a few species of animals exhibited...

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Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers)...

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Widemouth blindcat

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Species Act of 1973 along with the sympatric toothless blindcat. Blindness in animals NatureServe. (2014). "Satan eurystomus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...

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Visual impairment

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sight in your life, As three blind mice? Poet John Milton, who went blind in mid-life, composed "On His Blindness", a sonnet about coping with blindness. The...

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Vision in fish

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fish have eyes suited to the dark environment. Fish and other aquatic animals live in a different light environment than terrestrial species do. Water absorbs...

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Animal testing

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Nocturnal Animals

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Photokeratitis

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of snow blindness. This method was adopted by the Terra Nova northern party in the absence of traditional goggles. The impact of snow blindness extended...

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Animal coloration

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Service animal

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Nyctalopia

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Childhood blindness

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Childhood blindness is an important contribution to the national prevalence of the disability of blindness. Blindness in children can be defined as a visual...

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Emotional support animal

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Salty and Roselle

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Onchocerciasis

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include severe itching, bumps under the skin, and blindness. It is the second-most common cause of blindness due to infection, after trachoma. The parasitic...

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Blind Pilot

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