How Horses See the World 🐴

What do horses see? Are they color blind? Can they see better than us in the dark?

In this video, I cover:
- The level of detail that horses can see
- Why their color vision is so different from ours
- A strange disadvantage that prevents horses from seeing what's right in front of them
- What horse eyes surprisingly have in common with ostrich eyes

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[Vision-Vibes]

What other animals should I cover in this series??

[Voice_of_reasonth]

Along with bad depth perception! Horses have trouble seeing how deep something is. It's why crossing simple puddles or holes can scare them so much, as those things can look more like bottomless pits to a horse. And to a prey animal that relies so much on their legs, they can't afford to hurt or break one

[bettykiralyi]

I beg to differ, my horses spot wild animals in the bush from far away long before I see them.

[tropicalcitruscandle]

Never let a horse poke their head out of the float like that. You are asking for an injury!

[co]

Human night vision can also take about 45 minutes to fully kick in. You can see almost immediately, but you can see best after 45 minutes.

[hugodesrosiers-plaisance]

Damn dude, I was NOT ready for that steel-wire butt-scratch. 😂

[ashanddela_together]

1:19 omg, I know this isn’t about horses eyes, but, dude, that clip is just amazing

[Xurikyo]

No bs ads sponsorships, just horses. Thank you.

[StinkyOnApex]

i like that you have a bunch of cute funny horse vids in this

[nunyabusiness]

That butt scratch on the fence killed me... 🤣

[christianpetersen]

These horse clips are hillarious. I never knew horses could be as entertaining as cats and dogs. Now I can go to sleep knowing that I've learned something today.

[sammygreen]

Shocked to realise horses have bigger eyes than elephants!

[wellzy]

The funny horse clips was a nice touch! Great video

[LizSanchez]

Thank you for sharing & education of their vision ❤

[bryonhills]

I know they can hear the feed bag from 200 yards away

[bonniegettingthrumyday]

Always trust your horse- he can Smell & Hear things you cannot see

[paulinavolcanogirl]

Interesting, I loved all the cute horses in the video <3

[davidgipson]

Once my brother in law saved up his Marlboro points and got a telescope. We were on my dad's cattle ranch. He asked me to help him setup his telescope so later that evening he and my sister could look through it. I said where should I point it he said wherever you want. I pointed it way over the pasture towards the neighbors woods. They were 3 to 5 miles down the road. I looked through it and jumped back there was an eyeball filling the whole view. He looked through it and asked how I did that. He thought I was pranking him and I thought he was pranking me. He looked on the front lense and was baffled how I did it. He looked again and it blinked and he jumped back. It turns out the neighbors had horses standing in the woods and we setup the telescope zoomed in perfectly on one of there eyes. We couldn't believe it the odds of setting up a telescope perfectly focused on a horse eye miles away. This video just reminded me of it.

[dave]

They also look at our eyes. Wanna freak a horse out? Put on some sunglasses and walk up to one.

[HBudianu]

They can't see what's behind them, that's why you get kicked if you spook them from behind.