[ExVenor]

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Height: 22 in
Weight: 36 lbs
Color: Glass Masked Liver and Red Argenti
Genotype: as+as+ bb CC DD EmgEm hh Ii kyky mm SS tt UU lclc

Breeding Notes: This collie can only have 2 pups per litter due to impairments.
Notes: This collie is blind and thus cannot compete in the title program.

The Watcher

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Fact Comp! Tell me a cool fact about the eyesight/eyes of an animal and give them a fitting name!
Ends after at least 2 pages!



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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Name Meaning(s):[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Prompt:[/b]

[nio]

Username: nio
Name: Raphael
Name Meaning(s): an archangel
Gender: male
Prompt: The anableps is aptly nicknamed the four-eyed fish because each of its two eyes is split in two. One half is perfectly adapted to function above water, and the other half works ideally below the water’s surface.

[►Athena◄]

Username: ►Athena◄ 
Name: OMK One Eye Open | Blink
Name Meaning(s):
Gender: Female
Prompt: Hamsters usually only blink one eye at a time, always winking. If you watch closely, you can see it here. Source

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Name: Dara
Name Meaning(s): Hebrew for nugget of wisdom
Gender: Female
Prompt: Mantis shrimps probably have the most sophisticated vision in the animal kingdom. Their compound eyes move independently and they have 12 to 16 visual pigments compared to our three. They are the only animals known to be able to see circular polarised light.

[-chirp-]

Username: -chirp-
Name: olm
Name Meaning(s): an olm is a blind cave dragon
Gender: male
Prompt:
the olm is a cave salamander that is notable for its adaptations to a life of complete darkness in its underground habitat. the olm was thought of to have originally had developed a spot for eyes, but as time went on and nature realized that it did not require it, no eyes ever truly formed.


a quote directly from wikipedia
“This cave salamander is most notable for its adaptations to a life of complete darkness in its underground habitat. The olm's eyes are undeveloped, leaving it blind, while its other senses, particularly those of smell and hearing, are acutely developed. It also lacks any pigmentation in its skin.”

[-s-i-n-]

username: cincil.
name: judge of the dead | osiris
name meaning(s):
judge of the dead ; osiris was the judge of the dead and the underworld, described as "he who is permanently benign and youthful" and the "lord of silence"
osiris ; the egyptian god who is born again each year
gender: male
prompt: cat eyes are reflective. if you’ve ever driven in heavy fog, you’ve relied on a safety technology based on the cat’s eyes. road reflectors are used in pavement paint to keep traffic in the right lane during low-light conditions. their inventor, percy shaw, acknowledged that he was inspired by seeing a pair of cat’s eyes shining along the roadside one fog-filled night when he was trying to pick his way down a dark road.

[heffalumps]

Username: buckskin.
Name: SV Necromancer || Achlys
Name Meaning(s):
Achlys - goddess who symbolizes the mist of death. Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness.
Necromancy - the supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future.
Gender: female
Prompt:
The eyes of Arctic reindeer change colour with the seasons, from gold in the summer to blue in the winter. The technique allows them to make the most of changing light levels in their extreme habitat.

[Dr. Paine]

Username: Dr. Paine
Name: SSV’s Sight Beyond Sight // Claire
Name Meaning(s): A play on ‘clairvoyance’, supernatural vision.
Gender: Female
Prompt: Owl eyes aren’t round so much as they are tubular! They can’t move in the sockets, so that’s why owls can move their heads so far compared to other animals

[Lex.]

Username: raiden,
Name: Loxosceles
Name Meaning(s): Named after the Recluse Spider
Gender: Male
Prompt:

Dragonflies have two large compound eyes, each with thousands of lenses, and three eyes with simple lenses. Each retina contains several thousand photoreceptors that collect light and send information about the visual scene to interneurons, which further process the information.

[saorsa]

Username: Saorsa
Name: Valhalla’s Watcher on the Wall (Sullivan)
Name Meaning(s): Sullivan: Irish surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Súileabháin ("descendant of Súileabhán"), hence "little dark eyes."
Gender: male
Prompt:

Eagles have 1 million light-sensitive cells per square millimeter of the retina – humans only have 200,000.