What's a cat's vision like?

Question

what do they view? can someone give me some photos of an example of what they view in there vision?

Answer 1

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Cats can't see as well as we can in daylight, but they have superior night vision because of a reflective layer behind their retinas. Cats have a wider field of vision, about 200 degrees compared with humans' 180. Like us, cats have their eyes on the front of their heads and the field of each eye overlaps, which gives them binocular vision. The overlapping field in cats is a little smaller than it is in humans, but they still have quite good depth perception. We have a spot in the middle of our retinas called the fovea, which is the clearest spot in our visual field. Cats don't have this point, cats have a band across their retinas called a 'visual streak' which serves the same function. In regard to colours, cats can see colours but not as well as we can. Their colour vision is best with short wavelength colours (blues and violets) than long wavelengths (reds and oranges) but they can usually make a distinction between colours as long as they're not too similar.

Answer 2

Seeing as I'm not a cat, I really don't know. But, I looked up cat vision on google images and this seemed be a possibility. It said on a website that they did some kind of study and found that activity of neurons in a cats brain can be decoded into a reconstructed image and if thats true i guess this picture is what cat vision looks like:

http://futurefeeder.com/wp-content/IImag…

Hope this helped :)

Answer 3

food and laps, that is all they see.

just kidding, i cant quote a source right now, but i do remember a great show on scientist who study cats eyesight and reproduced for you a cats eyesight, they showed what the cat would see.

it was washed, no detail, i think it was black and white, or it may have been little difference in color, like different shades of the same color.
they dont see detail, like we do. if you are laying in the grass, they cant see the difference between you and the grass, like if you see a person in a dark alley, you see a shape, but you cant tell who it is.

they judge by movement, if you were laying on the grass and moved, they would see the big difference between you and the grass. you would move and the grass would not.

cats recognize us more by hearing and smell.

Answer 4

I don't know of any photo examples of how a cat sees. Cats have excellent night vision because of the lack of colour receptors in the retiner They have more light receiving receptors so any colour they see will be muted and almost in black and white. We have better eye sight than a cat in daylight. and they can't see something if it does not move it just looks like part of the furniture so to speak.