The UGA Deer Lab has conducted several experiments to better understand how deer visually perceive their environment.
- We examined the retinas of whitetails and fallow deer to characterize their photo receptors and determined they demonstrated dichromatic color vision.
- We mapped the structure of the deer retina and cone photoreceptors.
- We developed an automated device to train deer to visual stimuli.
- We determined the visual sensitivity of deer to various spectrums of light.
- We determined the visual acuity of deer (i.e., ability to see detail).
- We determined the flicker-fusion rate of deer (i.e., speed of processing visual images).
