The Eye
The horse has the largest eye of all land mammals, and is designed to help the horse as a prey animal. It provides the horse with a wide field of monocular vision, as well as good visual acuity. Horses have two-color, or dichromatic vision, which is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans. Because the horse's vision is closely tied to behavior, the horse's visual abilities are often taken into account when handling and training the animal.
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