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Re: CHAT: Return of the Sal (was CHAT: Re: Zed)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 21, 2000, 22:37
andrew wrote:
> They are > semi-nocturnal, although in sacrifice for night vision they have no > colour perception, seeing everything as graded shades.
Interesting. Instead of color words, then, they could perhaps have words for shades of grey. But night-vision isn't incompatible with color-vision, cats can see color (altho I seem to recall that they can't see red) -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor