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Hummingbirds can identify at least eight colours that are invisible to humans because their eyes are able to detect ultraviolet light, study reveals

By: Luke Andrews For Mailonline
Date: June 15, 2020

Summary

... thinking that they had excellent colour vision. Any ideas about photo-luminescence would mean that they were even showier, even gaudier than we'd thought.' The scientists went to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory every summer for three years to...