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Old 09-01-2006, 11:24 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Fish_Eye

The striper’s color-sensitive cone cells move toward the surface of the retina during daylight hours, and retreat to make room for the contrast-sensitive rod cells at night.
Mike, is this change over from cones to rods the reason they usually, in most conditions, turn off at dark and then start feeding again later, as their eyes need time to adjust to the dark?

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