Blind Animals
Visual perception plays an important role in the animal kingdom, most notably for the identification of food sources, and avoidance of predators. For this reason, blindness in animals is a unique topic of study.
In general, nocturnal or subterranean animals have less interest in the visual world, and depend on other sensory modalities. Visual capacity is a continuum, with humans falling somewhere in the center.
Read more about Blind Animals: Totally Blind Species, Partial Blindness, Natural Selection, Injury, Disease and Disability, In Fiction
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