Fruit bats are not 'blind as bats' in daylight

The Hindustan Times | June 16, 2007 | Copyright

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Munich, June 16 -- Fruit bats have cells in their retinas that enable them to see in the daytime and that too in colour, a joint research by American and German scientists has revealed.

The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision and colour vision, and the more sensitive rods for night vision.

Previously nocturnal fruit bats (flying foxes) were believed to possess only rods.

Now scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and The ...

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