Pigeons: Masters of Color and Vision

Pigeons can see colors humans cannot even imagine. They have five types of color receptors

while we only have three. This means they can detect ultraviolet light and see millions

of colors we will never experience. They can also process images faster than us,

seeing the world like it's in slow motion. When you show a pigeon a video,

they see every single frame separately while we just see smooth motion. They've been used

to detect cancer in medical imaging because their vision is that precise. During tests,

pigeons identified malignant tumors with 99 percent accuracy after just fifteen days of

training. We walk past them every day thinking they're just dumb birds,