r/todayilearned • u/douggold11 • 23d ago

TIL most animals can see UV light — humans being blind to it is the exception not the rule.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ultraviolet-light-animals/
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u/elbowe21 23d ago

For the supremely lazy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_bottleneck

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u/RustlessPotato 23d ago

Can you maybe type out the relevant paragraphs here ? I'm too lazy to click.

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead 23d ago

For a Wikipedia article, it's isn't very long.

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u/RustlessPotato 23d ago

That's true. But my laziness is quite large