Two male squirrel monkeys were given gene therapy and now the normally color blind animals are able to distinguish between shades of red and green in color vision tests. In normal situations, female squirrel monkeys can see a full range of colors, but males cannot see red or green. picked by Bingo 2 months ago tags Monkeys Cured Color Blindness |
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Use this little app so you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color. You can also select from the dropdown list of 1500+ colors and then play around. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Very interesting look on how the color blind see things compared to normal sight. picked by Muppetmaker 2 years ago 11 comments edit related share plime.com |
What color is water? It is a question that many children ask, not to mention adults, and the answer is invariably that it has no color. It is transparent, clear, see through. So, which answer is the correct one? picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
A whole site dedicated to color. I definetly bookmarked this. picked by LatueOfStiberty 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Like death and taxes, there is no escaping color. It is ubiquitous. Yet what does it all mean? Why are people more relaxed in green rooms? Why do weightlifters do their best in blue gyms? picked by wags273 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share science |
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A software program that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminable colors for various types of color blind. 3 comments edit related share plime.comAlso found it interesting to see examples of how the color blind people see...I hadn't considered before how color blindness affects computing. picked by lemon711 1 year ago |
What is unique about Addessi's study is that the monkeys didn't just choose between quantities but also showed they were able to represent them using symbols – much as humans use coins to represent value. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
"The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?" picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Using a device that coverts 360 colors into different sounds, Neil Harbisson can now paint with all the correct colors, taking his art to a new level. picked by MUPpetMAKer 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals. picked by Lilo 2 years ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Female monkeys living in a 250-strong colony were observed by scientists teaching their young how to use strands of hair to clean between their teeth. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
If you spend as much time on YouTube as we -- unfortunately -- do, you're going to see a lot of monkeys doing a lot of stuff. But as our quest continued, we came to a humbling conclusion. There really isn't much difference between us and our hairy primate brothers, we realised. We both laugh. We both cry. We both operate motor bikes. picked by cactushair 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share entertainment |
Tenebraex has created a technology that lets color blind folks "see" colors using the camera function on their cell phones picked by Purzhia 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Authorities in Puerto Rico are using cages and mangos to try to trap hundreds of marauding monkeys - descendants of escaped research animals - and hope to send them off to sanctuaries or labs, or to kill them. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A team of doctors has carried out the world's first eye operations using gene therapy to try to cure a serious sight disorder, officials said on Tuesday. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and their ancestors, the dinosaurs. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Monkeys have been found to be fans of heavy metal music after scientists found it calmed them down. 4 comments edit related share plime.com*you ever see a Cottontop Tamarin? They look pretty metal too! picked by chez 3 months ago |
"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us." They also claim the monkeys make sexually explicit gestures at them. Those are some bad monkeys. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 15 comments edit related share world |
The dead monkeys found in the forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) might be behind the outbreak of the Ebola virus in DR Congo's southwestern Kassi province, Angola's official news agency ANGOP reported on Tuesday. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Most monkeys are happy swinging in the trees of tropical jungles but from the look on the face of this one there is nothing like indulging in a hot bath after a long day. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |