reflective eyes
Post 1
Started conversation Jan 28, 2003
In animals like cats, the reflections at night are because of an extra membrane, the tapetum lucidum, behind the retina, which reflects light back to the retina, so at night each bit of light gets two chances to hit the retina. People don't have one. btw, i'm in second year high school bio 
reflective eyes
Post 2
Posted Jan 28, 2003
Yeah, kinda cool isn't it.
I decided not to put animal eyes in this article, because I would have to put loads of info I didn't know that much about. I do humans most of the time.
Got to say i wish i was doing 2nd year biology, at the moment i'm doing 2nd year optometry with ocular pathology, microbiology and pharmacology. It's getting confusing
SallyM 
reflective eyes
Post 3
Posted Jan 28, 2003
Yeah great isn't it
I decided not to put it in the article because I wanted to concentrate on humans only. If i did animals I'd have to include flies eyes and lots of info that I don't know much about. I only really do humans.
Wish I was back doing 2nd year biology, doing 2nd year optometry and it's getting complicated.
SallyM
reflective eyes
Post 4
Posted Jan 28, 2003
Don't you just hate it when that happens, you think you've lost your message, re-write it and it appears again!!!!
SallyM
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