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Old 09-10-2017, 08:41 AM   #19
Fred Brackin
 
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Default Re: What if you replaced all cones with rods?

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
I'm pretty sure that eagles have cones in their foveae, not rods. They hunt almost entirely by daylight; low-light receptors wouldn't be all that useful to them.
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They have more cones and they're biased towards the red and yellow rather than the sky-blue.

A lot of the Telescopic Vision appears to come from the ability to physically change the shape of the eyeball.
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