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IN some experiments, conducted with Dr. J. C. Mottram during the War, upon the best conditions for night vision, the question arose as to what part the transparency of the media of the eye plays in determining acuity of vision in dim lights. It is known that individuals vary between wide limits in their night vision, some appearing almost blind in a night of average darkness. Further, it is known that many wild animals have very little difficulty in making their way about or in finding their prey in dim lights, though the sense of smell may not, in the latter category, be neglected. In the night owls this sense is, I understand, excluded, for they find their prey solely by the sense of sight.
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RUSS, S. The Vision of Nocturnal Animals. Nature 115, 306 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115306a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115306a0