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Deer vision: Camo is "man fashion"

7/10/2023

Camo is -mostly- man fashion. At close range, camo that breaks up human forms and pattern is helpful, even if it is orange and green. But, at 400 yards, your super secret stealth camo could be making you glow like a scorpion during the day or night. Are you making that mistake? Keep reading to see if you glow like an alien in the woods.

Deer eyes are completely different than human eyes. Sure, all the structures are the same, but its like the difference between a sports car (human eyes) and a 4x4.

Deer eyes take in more light. Deer eyes have horizontal slots that the light passes through, not round like human. They get more light than human.
Deer eyes absorb more of the light that enters. The back of deer eyes are reflective, human eyes are not. So, when light misses human rods/cones that light is gone. But, the light reflects back across the rods/cones of deer, so deer absorb a greater percentage of the light that passes through the retina.
Deer have more rods (night vision) than humans.
Deer have less cones (day vision) than humans.
Deer can see blue and green, which are the short wavelengths on the bottom of the rainbow. But, they don't have the red cones, so they essentially see blues and greens, and mixes of them into tans and browns. Deer can't see red or orange, it just appears as another brown color to them.
Deer can see colors that extend below the violet in the rainbow, because they have no UV filter in their eyes, which means they can see at night. UV is the short wavelength in a blacklight that makes scorpions glow. Humans have a UV filters that reduces almost all of the UV light that reaches our eyes, which is why we need a blacklight with lots of UV before we can see a scorpion "glow". Deer can see scorpions glowing without the extra shine of a blacklight.
Deer have a field of view that is 310 degrees wide with their eyes on the side of the head, so they only miss what is directly behind them. Because their field of view is wide, deer can't "focus" on a fine point like humans. Essentially, their vision could be compared to human vision that is just outside of the "focus point" where our peripheral vision begins.
Deer vision is attuned to movement, just like we more easily see movement in our peripheral vision.

CONCLUSION: So, when deer are a medium distance and farther, their vision doesn't have sufficient clarity and focus to "see" a human shape or distinguish between a solid red, orange, green, or brown clothes.

Deer can see blue and the UV enhancers that are put in clothes detergent. So, make sure you don't wash with scents or "color enhancers" in your detergent.

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