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Hogs - No longer Nocturnal !?!
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<blockquote data-quote="Double Naught Spy" data-source="post: 1652715" data-attributes="member: 55410"><p>Absolutely! There have been a couple of studies and their binocular vision (though a narrow FOV) isn't much worse than ours. And then they have less refined vision that is something like 290 degrees. In daylight, I have been downwind of hogs and gotten busted at well over 100 yards.</p><p></p><p>I always love the 'almost blind' comments. As a night hunter, I have shot hogs from a sounder and then watched as the others ran through the woods, in the dark, without running into trees. I don't know any humans that could do that.</p><p></p><p>I think the real problem with the belief that hogs are almost blind is that people (in particular, hunters) confuse behavior with ability. I have heard hunters describe themselves as being invisible to the deer because a deer walked right by the hunter, even looked at the hunter, but didn't run away. They say similar things about hogs. Just because the animal doesn't run doesn't mean it didn't see you. It just means it didn't see you as a threat.</p><p></p><p>Along these lines, hogs most definitely do see red and green hunting lights. They don't see them as being red or green, but they see the illumination, possibly as a more gray light.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Double Naught Spy, post: 1652715, member: 55410"] Absolutely! There have been a couple of studies and their binocular vision (though a narrow FOV) isn't much worse than ours. And then they have less refined vision that is something like 290 degrees. In daylight, I have been downwind of hogs and gotten busted at well over 100 yards. I always love the 'almost blind' comments. As a night hunter, I have shot hogs from a sounder and then watched as the others ran through the woods, in the dark, without running into trees. I don't know any humans that could do that. I think the real problem with the belief that hogs are almost blind is that people (in particular, hunters) confuse behavior with ability. I have heard hunters describe themselves as being invisible to the deer because a deer walked right by the hunter, even looked at the hunter, but didn't run away. They say similar things about hogs. Just because the animal doesn't run doesn't mean it didn't see you. It just means it didn't see you as a threat. Along these lines, hogs most definitely do see red and green hunting lights. They don't see them as being red or green, but they see the illumination, possibly as a more gray light. [/QUOTE]
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