Color vision

Today we're talking about how goats actually see the world.

Horizontal pupils, panoramic field of view, a reflective layer in the eye that makes them glow at night, and color vision that runs closer to red/green colorblind than to anything like ours.

We'll also get into what all of it explains about behavior in the pasture and in the working facility, including a few things that used to look like stubbornness and now just look like physics.

Let's get to it.

Cats have it, dogs have it, deer have it, and goats have it.

It's not unique to goats, but it's one more piece of an eye designed to keep an animal alive at dusk and dawn, which is exactly when most predators are moving.

Color vision.

This one surprised me a little when I dug into it.

And what was found is that apparently I have no red cone.

So there's three cones of colour vision you have.

A red cone, a green cone and a blue cone.

Apparently my red cone has completely disappeared.