{"id":27732,"date":"2018-02-17T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=27732"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:28:14","slug":"the-bright-tapestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-bright-tapestry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bright Tapestry…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cat’s ability to see in as little as one-sixth of the light needed by humans is attributed to a layer on the back of its retina known as the tapetum lucidum or “bright tapestry”.<\/p>\n

This layer gathers the light and reflects it back like a mirror to the light gathering cells of the eye, amplifying it to provide more information in less light.<\/p>\n

More information in less light equals more food if you are a leopard (Panthera pardus) in the wild.<\/p>\n

Okavango Delta, Botswana.<\/p>\n

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A cat’s ability to see in as little as one-sixth of the light needed by humans is attributed to a layer on the back of its retina known as the tapetum lucidum or “bright tapestry”. This layer gathers the light and reflects it back like a mirror to the light gathering cells of the eye, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":2192616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kwedi-07-125e-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1011,2353,3104,1013,2951],"class_list":["post-27732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-botswana","tag-dana-allen","tag-lexar-media","tag-okavango-delta","tag-panthera-pardus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}