Hell's lights: why cats' eyes glow different colors (6 photos)

Everyone knows that cat eyes glow in the dark. Or rather, they reflect light. Therefore, any directional light source in the midnight darkness turns the cats' eyes into hellish headlights.





Cats are nocturnal creatures. To hunt at night, they must be able to see well in the dark. A special shining layer of the eye membrane, the tapetum, allows them to “highlight” their prey. It looks funny, and at the same time creepy.



The brightest of all - yellow, golden - are the eyes of those cats whose eyes themselves are yellow or copper in color. Because these cats have the most reflective pigment in their eyes.





The eyes of green-eyed cats glow a little less brightly - whitish, greenish, bluish - since they have a little less of this pigment.



The eyes of blue-eyed cats glow red and crimson, because there is not enough pigment in their eyes. By the way, in the dark they do not see as well as green-eyed and yellow-eyed ones.



Another option is when the eyes each glow in their own way. This happens in cats with different eyes, for example when one eye is yellow and the other is blue. In this case, in the dark the cat resembles a railway signal.



But all these rules do not always work. The light of a cat's eyes also depends on the brightness and hue of the light that the eyes reflect, and on the angle of incidence of the beam of this light. But, in general, what difference does it make, because it always looks beautiful and fascinating!