Richfield Reaper | 1913-11-27 | Page 4 | Sight of Mice and Snails

SIGHT OF MICE AND SNAILS little rodents are good at distin gul shing Di deferent ferent degrees of it II and colors how much does a mouse see seea to look at a one would mould think that sight eight counted for a great deal in its life but experiments go to show that this is ant true ifshin certain limits mico alice are good at distinguishing differ ent degrees ot of illumination and differ ent colon preferring red and yellow to blue and dereen fe rc reen en and the are quick to detect movements but they have little sense ot of torm form and little binocular N elsion dos docs a seea see field observe eions suggest that tho animal avoids the light laboratory Lab orator experiments on the other hand band suggest that it 11 prefers the light prof emile I 1 ung ot of geneva genen a has hab the question and finds thit that both these conclusions aro are i wrong rang ile he made over 2000 observe a eions on oil enalls and found that they the quite to all sorts ot of light stimulus that the do not pre ler fer lighted or shaded areas and that the do riot not see in front ot of them ind that their eyes han have e no vis via ual significance