What is the only animal that can see both ultra-violet and infra-red light?

Question

Or is there more than one?

Answer 1

"The common goldfish is the only animal that can see in both ultraviolet and infrared light."

Answer 2

I suspect that this has to be some species  of bird.  Perhaps an owl.   Maybe an eagle??

Answer 3

Its the common gold fish.

Answer 4

The broadest color vision is found in mantis shrimp as they do have hyperspectral vision, they see from infrared to UV.

http://rdabrenica.16.forumer.com/viewtop...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008...

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Shallow-water fish and most diurnal birds are tetrachromatic, they have cones from four spectral classes.  The goldfish is a commonly used animal for vision experiments but they do not see in the infrared.

http://books.google.com/books?id=DrduOSr...

Infrared is longer than 700nm

Deep red 700nm

Red spectral center 685

Birds red peak 580-600

Human red peak 575

Goldfish red peak 559

Bees do not see in this range

Human violet peak 425 to 415nm is the closest we come to this range

Birds UV peak 365-385

Goldfish UV peak 359

Bees UV peak 340

UV range 300 to 400nm

http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/2006/...

Answer 5

Goldfish?

Speaking of Goldfish, if you leave a Goldfish in a dark room for like 10 months, it will turn white eventually.. btw you will still have to feed him.. xD