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Just curious what you all think of this! I'm going to do my term 1 psych project on my hyptohesis of "leopard geckos can see some colour and associate it with food". I know that reptiles dont see "well" in colour and its not ground breaking research, but i thought it would be intresting to check it out for myself! i'm going to have two deep bowls, one bright red and one grey one in a similar tone (so they both look very similar in black and white) and always have the food (mealworms, given everynight at 8pm) in the coloured one, but switch around the placement all the time (so they dont associate "left" with food) and see if i can get my two "test" subjects to produce the same results, that being that they will go to the brightly colourd one and expect food on a regualr basis. i kind of doubt it will produce results, but it could prove intresting anywas! and as a plus my teacher might let me just dedicate a page of my web site to it instead of a writen!
 
Hey what psyc are you in? which school do you go to?
If i remember correctly you're in BC?

Im currently taking psyc too, its perception and i'm thinking of doing my report on reptile vision/perception and how they view the world as well!
 
Its actually a high school psych project! I'm in grade 12, but I dont really plan to get into it too much after HS, i'm just taking it because it really intrests me! (and I wanted an excuse to experement on my animals!) for my second term project my plan is to do the same thing with my Tree frog, then my cat. so i can compare reptiles, to amphibans to mamals!
 
ooh ok
Damn thought we might of been in the same class!!

highschool? WoW since when have they offered psyc... wow i missed out

good luck on that
 
A problem with your experiment...

if you have food in the dish the leopard geckos may be able to smel them or hear them crawling around in the dish. They will end up going to the red dish because of some factor other than the color. Leo's can't see color, nocturnal animals really don't have a need for color vision. It might be interesting to find out what their range of sound is though. I think they probably have very good hearing.
 
Yes, you have a very good point! It gave me a good idea! i could do some experementation with hearing and smell instead, same idea, with the two bowls, but instead measure the accuracy rate they can detect the correct bowl with different numbers or states (very livley, still cold, recently shead ect..) of meal worms. or I might just go with "plan a" and make sure the worms are cold, dusted, and the other bowl will have some calcium powder in it as well so it smells similar. Because the teacher knows Nothing about reptiles, and she really liked the idea.....hmmm, i dont have to decide untill next week sometime, so keep the thoughts coming!
 
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