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Cole has owned his saloon for a while now, so he's knows trouble is bound to start up at some point. Skunks are known to hit their mark.
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spookaboo, who's honestly one of my favorite artists here on FA.
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File Size 205.7 kB
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More serious reaction then I expected.
But anyway... It's slightly more nuanced. Skunks have poor eyesight under optimal conditions for HUMAN eyesight. Their nightvision is actually better then a humans. And the way they see like that seems to be a thing with most caniforms. Sight isn't their PRIMARY sense (and less acute then that of feliforms), but there's still alot of myths and misunderstandings about animal eyesight. (Which also means alot of sources on it are not 100% reliable. (because it's common for misunderstandings to get repeated by people who don't know any better.)
Far as I can tell, skunks see best under low-light conditions. And see sharper at short distances then long distances, and rely more on their sense of smell and hearing then their eyesight. (Again common for caniform carnivorans.) And they have trouble under the bright light optimal for a human eye. (Which means that to human observers out in the day when the average human observer is, the animal would seem to have poorer eyesight then it has overall.) Skunks prefer to be active at night, or at dusk or dawn. And whilst they don't have great eyesight, it's not as terrible as many people might say.
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Of course wether this'd apply to hypothetical anthro's is another story. Honestly anthro's probably would have traded at least some of the sensitive nose for more acute sight. Because that simply makes more sense for a tool user. (Although there's no reason they'd need to have eyes optimal for seeing colour or for daytime vision. Colour vision seems to have more to do with finding fruit, and there's no reason an intelligent creature couldn't be nocturnal.)
Of course that... and compared to birds of prey (Who need to spot small animals from enormous distances) humans have poor eyesight, and compared to mantis shrimp of all things, we have very limited colour vision. Because the way those eyes are build... well their world would be a sea of colours the human brain literally could not process (because it has no means to perceive them.) Kind of like how a cat could never truly fathom the difference between blue and green. Because for a cat, there is none.
But anyway... It's slightly more nuanced. Skunks have poor eyesight under optimal conditions for HUMAN eyesight. Their nightvision is actually better then a humans. And the way they see like that seems to be a thing with most caniforms. Sight isn't their PRIMARY sense (and less acute then that of feliforms), but there's still alot of myths and misunderstandings about animal eyesight. (Which also means alot of sources on it are not 100% reliable. (because it's common for misunderstandings to get repeated by people who don't know any better.)
Far as I can tell, skunks see best under low-light conditions. And see sharper at short distances then long distances, and rely more on their sense of smell and hearing then their eyesight. (Again common for caniform carnivorans.) And they have trouble under the bright light optimal for a human eye. (Which means that to human observers out in the day when the average human observer is, the animal would seem to have poorer eyesight then it has overall.) Skunks prefer to be active at night, or at dusk or dawn. And whilst they don't have great eyesight, it's not as terrible as many people might say.
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Of course wether this'd apply to hypothetical anthro's is another story. Honestly anthro's probably would have traded at least some of the sensitive nose for more acute sight. Because that simply makes more sense for a tool user. (Although there's no reason they'd need to have eyes optimal for seeing colour or for daytime vision. Colour vision seems to have more to do with finding fruit, and there's no reason an intelligent creature couldn't be nocturnal.)
Of course that... and compared to birds of prey (Who need to spot small animals from enormous distances) humans have poor eyesight, and compared to mantis shrimp of all things, we have very limited colour vision. Because the way those eyes are build... well their world would be a sea of colours the human brain literally could not process (because it has no means to perceive them.) Kind of like how a cat could never truly fathom the difference between blue and green. Because for a cat, there is none.
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