{"id":2692,"date":"2009-10-16T05:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2009-10-16T05:04:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T22:04:26","slug":"shedding-light-on-equine-night-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/shedding-light-on-equine-night-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEDDING LIGHT ON EQUINE NIGHT VISION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px;\">Do you ever worry about being out on the trail after dark? It&#8217;s a legitimate concern; after all, if humans can&#8217;t see well in low light, how well can a horse? Researchers already know that horses have the physical equipment for scotopic (night) vision, with more rods than cones and a reflective structure in the retina. Experience tells us that they continue to graze, interact, and move about at night.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-16a9x39e40x18827&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever worry about being out on the trail after dark? It&#8217;s a legitimate concern; after all, if humans can&#8217;t see well in low light, how well can a horse? Researchers already know that horses have the physical equipment for scotopic (night) vision, with more rods than cones and a reflective structure in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}