- Reindeer are the only mammal known to seasonally adapt their eyes to the extremely blue colour of the extended twilight that occupies a large part of the winter 24h cycle in their Arctic habitat, in order to see lichen and wolfs also in the dark https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1002 93 comments science
Linking pages
- Reindeer Eyes Completely Change Colors in Winter - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/reindeer-eyes-winter-vision-adaptation/661419/ 0 comments
- How reindeer eyes transform in winter to give twilight vision https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/reindeer-eyes-transform-winter-twilight-vision 0 comments