Dolphins see the world in the same way as humans do according to research
Dolphins see the world in a similar way to humans according to new research.
Despite living in such different environments, the study concluded that dolphins, humans and chimpanzees perceive the world "in fundamentally similar ways".
Researchers at the University of Kyoto in Japan carried out a study comparing the different animals
The dolphins were set a visual-matching task using two-dimensional geometric forms including various features.
The results showed that "the visual world is perceived similarly by the three species of mammals, even though each has adapted to a different environment and has differing degrees of dependence on vision.
Previous studies of dolphin vision have used complicated three-dimensional structures which make it much more difficult for researchers to identify the types of visual cues used by dolphins to distinguish between objects.
Dolphins have poorer visual acuity, or clearness of vision, than other species as well as a limited colour vision.
However both primates and dolphins perceive the world 'in fundamentally similar ways."
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