Behavioral evidence of color vision deficiency in a protanomalia chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Primates. 2003 Apr;44(2):171-6. doi: 10.1007/s10329-002-0017-5. Epub 2003 Feb 27.

Abstract

Although color vision deficiency is very rare among Old World monkeys and apes, one male chimpanzee (Lucky) was identified as protanomalous by genetic and physiological analyses. This study assessed behavioral phenotypes of Lucky and four chimpanzees with normal color vision by discrimination task using the modified Ishihara pseudo-isochromatic plates. Lucky could not discriminate the stimuli that the other chimpanzees could. This is the first behavioral evidence of color vision deficiency in chimpanzees.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Color Vision Defects / physiopathology*
  • Discrimination, Psychological / physiology*
  • Male
  • Pan troglodytes / physiology*
  • Vision Tests / veterinary*