Color through a Dog's Eyes

Overview

Objectives/Goals My objective was to find if dogs can distinguish the difference between three primary colors. Methods/Materials Blue, Red & Yellow Felt (all the same size), various food & praise rewards, dog. I used the reward system when my dog gave the appropriate trick/response to each of the different colored felts when voice commands were used. I repeated the process above without the use of voice commands until I received the desired result when each of the colored felts were presented in a random order. Results At the end of my experiment, I proved that dogs can see color. I trained my dog to successfully determine the difference in color and respond with the appropriate trick without the use/need of voice commands. Conclusions/Discussion During this experiment, my goal was to successfully train my dog to differentiate color. To recap, I used the three colors, red, yellow, and blue to symbolize as commands to determine if dogs are colorblind. My hypothesis was that dogs could be trained to see and react to specific colors. My data proved I was correct. Dogs can see the difference in color and respond appropriately. The background research showed that dogs can see color but not all the colors we can see. They can see a variety of blues, yellows, and violets.

Competition history

• CSEF 2017 Mammalian Biology · Entry J1311

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