Do any animals have better color vision than human beings? Yes. Bees and butterflies both have better color vision than human beings do. They pollinate flowers and need to see the colors of the flowers to find them.
How do bees and butterflies recognize the right flowers? They can see ultraviolet light. The flowers they have to pollinate have patterns on them in ultraviolet! We can’t see the patterns, but bees and butterflies can!
recognize ( verb ) to know and remember someone or something because of previous experience patterns ( noun ) the regular and repeated way in which something happens or is done
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