Tag Archives: color vision

Eyes On The Turkey

All Eyes On The Turkey! No, keep your eyes off that bottle of Wild Turkey, we are talking about the one on the table. After multiple trips to the eye doctor it has been concluded that the turkey sees better than you do. Fortunately (for most of us anyway) it is not quite as bequeathed [...]

Eyes Of Eye Docs Sugar Gliders

Ft Collins Sees The Eyes of Nic and Nac Well it’s back to being a foster parent-Nic & Nak are two Sugar Gliders that have joined out family. In case you don’t know, sugar gliders are marsupials who carry their young in a pouch, and they love to live as adults in anything resembling a [...]

Eyes Changes as Signs of Abuse

The eyes have been referred to the gateway to the soul. Sometimes they are reflective of psychological problems such as physical and sexual abuse or post traumatic stress syndrome. Your eyes have two different mechanisms of tracking moving objects. The first type are referred to as pursuit eye movements and are used to track an [...]

Bugs Eye Optometrist View on Things

Picture of the week. This is an unidentified insect eye magnified over 800x by an electron microscope. It is an example of a compound eye, a primitive form where each sphere is a unit that is a cluster of photoreceptor light sensing cells. Imagine a small image for each sphere and you have the mosaic [...]