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Do horses have different eye colors like humans?

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Most horses have brown eyes. However, other colors occur, including blue, green, yellow, amber, and hazel. These are a result of either one of the various white patterns or of dilution. read more

Horses may have one brown and one blue or partially blue eye. Dilution genes are incomplete dominant genes that reduced the intensity of a horse’s coat color. The most common is the cream gene, but there are also the pearl gene and the champagne gene. read more

Heterochromia of the eye (heterochromia iridum or heterochromia iridis) is of three kinds. In complete heterochromia, one iris is a different color from the other. In or sectoral heterochromia, part of one iris is a different color from its remainder and finally in central heterochromia there is a ring around the pupil or possibly spikes of different colors radiating from the pupil. read more

Horses are not color blind, they have two-color, or dichromatic vision. This means they distinguish colors in two wavelength regions of visible light, compared to the three-color (trichromic vision) of most humans. read more

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