What Does Colour Blindness Mean for Survival? | BBC Earth Science

Zoologist Andrew Smith tests colour-blind marmosets with a tempting challenge to examine how colour vision affects survival. The video looks at how seeing colour can give animals important clues about their surroundings, and what changes when some colours are harder to tell apart. It is presented as part of BBC Earth Science content.

• Zoologist Andrew Smith runs the marmoset experiment
• Colour vision helps animals read their surroundings
• Colour-blind marmosets face a tempting test
• Content from BBC Earth Science

For animals, seeing in colour can reveal important clues about the world around them. But what happens when some of those colours are harder to distinguish? Zoologist Andrew Smith tests colour-blind marmosets with a particularly tempting challenge. Best of Earth Science: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: http://bbcworldwide.com/vod-feedback--contact-details.aspx