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Old 04-26-2018, 12:40 PM   #35
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Default Re: Human-octopus barter

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
They would be a much higher difficulty from them though seeing as how most octopuses are colorblind. Ha.
It seems that while octopodes lack colour-sensitive photoreceptor differentiation, they manage to distinguish colours using a purely 'software' method (analysing the difference in diffraction/blurring between different wavelengths). (One would expect them to have some way of distinguishing colours to enable their top-tier chameleonic abilities.)
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