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Reindeers Change Their Eyes For Summer And Winter, Study Finds
National Geographic ^
| 3-13-2007
| James Owen
Posted on 03/13/2007 5:02:13 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:02:19 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:03:34 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam; leda
blue, green, pick one, pick a day. LOL.
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:07:54 PM PDT
by
patton
(In spit of it all...)
To: blam
They adapt for all of those winter reindeer games.
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:08:42 PM PDT
by
capydick
(Better to Fight for Something Than to Live for Nothing)
To: blam
"The changing of the eyes is caused by global warming. Want to pull my finger for some reindeer offset credits?"
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:09:35 PM PDT
by
teacherwoes
(A fugitive from a Democrat Congress)
To: blam
"We have observed something which is absolutely real, but we have difficulties in explaining it," Stokkan said.
Hmmmm....God is...er, I mean, evolution is sooooo impressive.
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:11:14 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: blam
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:13:38 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: muawiyah
You'd mentioned in a previous post that the Sa'ami may have unique eyes. Looks like their reindeer do.
Sami's
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:13:53 PM PDT
by
blam
To: patton
it depends on what color your shirt is ;)
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:15:30 PM PDT
by
leda
(The quiet girl on the stairs.)
To: leda
Hey, I am faster than a flying reindeer...my eyes change color in a second, not over months.
Faster than a flying reindeer...um...
maybe that is not what I meant to say...
LOL.
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:20:00 PM PDT
by
patton
(In spit of it all...)
To: blam
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Are the stars out tonight? I don't care if it's cloudy not bright. Cuz I only have eyes of blue, deer.
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To: patton
faster than a flying reindeer? lol!
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:24:55 PM PDT
by
leda
(The quiet girl on the stairs.)
To: blam
"Reindeer have a different set of eyes for summer and winter, a new study suggests"
SOooooooo, If you accidentally blinded one in summer it would be seeing fine by winter? I wonder where they store the spare set?
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:38:46 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
To: Marine Inspector
To: blam
Thanks. I'm still wondering about the blue-blindness, and it makes some sense if you don't have any blue cones and simply rely on your rods to supplement the signal for color purposes.
The chemistry to sense "blue" light is also different from that used to sense "red" and "green", and it responds slower. In the arctic day, the "blue" lagtime might well lead to early degradation of the retina ~ maybe in the form of a retinal neuropathy, or macular degeneration.
The extra complement of "red" receptors has an arctic night advantage.
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:22:47 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: WesternCulture; Charles Henrickson
This has probably been keeping you up at night.
To: blam
Hey, if they can pull a sleigh to every house in the Christian world in one night, they can probably do anything!
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:38:31 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
To: blam
Maybe this capability was in the original design!
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:23:29 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: muawiyah
OK, Blam, here I am 10 full months from my last cataract surgery. Back in March when this thread was alive and in living color I was still wearing sunglasses at night. Little did I know that in just a couple of weeks my eyes would suddenly adapt and I could throw away the sunglasses.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my eyes had changed from GREEN with a black rim to BLUE, and not just blue, but a deep, penetrating hard blue ~
They've subsequently changed from that to a blue border around an orange center.
I suspect that as the days grow shorter and we head toward Christmas they'll go back to BLUE.
It seems logical that the human beings who successfully track/herd reindeer have to see at least as well as theiry quarry.
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posted on
09/05/2007 6:32:29 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: blam
...eyes removed from animals culled in winter appeared deep blue when light was shined into them.They're dead, James.
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posted on
09/05/2007 6:40:08 PM PDT
by
decimon
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