History Main / UnexpectedlyHumanPerception

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* ''{{VideoGame/Spore}}'': All spore creatures with eyes can see perfectly well, as a human. Also, all creatures can hear, even without the physiological equipment to do so.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Though the books are told from the point-of-view of cats, they still see things the way humans do. This means being able to make out colors they shouldn't be able to, such as red and green, while not being able to see in the dark. Kits are able to open their eyes within seconds they are born much like a human baby would, although it takes about several weeks before kittens are able to open their eyes and to see very well, (in ''Bluestar's Prophecy,'' Bluekit and her sister are able to open their eyes and can see from incredible far distances, and that's not even mentioning the fact that they can already know how to play and run around like 2 month old kittens instead of spending most of their time sleeping and struggling to walk properly until their bodies develop more like real life ones). In many books they are able to taste sweetness (with one character even being named "Sweetpaw") despite cats not being able to. This was fixed in later books as cats consider honey to be tasteless.

* An inversion is discussed in ''Literature/GuardianCatsAndTheLostBooksOfAlexandria''. Marco, a cat, is surprised to learn that humans have poor night vision. He always thought lamps were for decoration.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Though the books are told from the point-of-view of cats, they still see things the way humans do. This means being able to make out colors they shouldn't be able to, such as red and green, while not being able to see in the dark. Kits are able to open their eyes within seconds they are born, although it takes about several weeks before kittens are able to open their eyes and see very well, much like human babies do (in ''Bluestar's Prophecy,'' Bluekit and her sister are able to open their eyes and can see incredible far distances, and that's not even mentioning the fact that they can already know how to play and run around like 2 month old kittens instead of spending most of their time sleeping and struggling to walk properly until their bodies develop more like real life ones). In many books they are able to taste sweetness (with one character even being named "Sweetpaw") despite cats not being able to. This was fixed in later books as cats consider honey to be tasteless.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Though the books are told from the point-of-view of cats, they still see things the way humans do. This means being able to make out colors they shouldn't be able to, such as red and green, while not being able to see in the dark. In many books they are able to taste sweetness (with one character even being named "Sweetpaw") despite cats not being able to. This was fixed in later books as cats consider honey to be tasteless.

This is part of ArtisticLicenseBiology and MostWritersAreHuman. Like with all Artistic Licenses, TropesAreNotBad - when we need a clear perspective from the animal in question, all of the animal's unique sensory quirks/flaws may get in the way of the audience's effort to understand said perspective, although this trope is still used with animal senses that are above human level.

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* Subverted in ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'', a FixFic of ''Warriors''. The cats no longer see the same colours as people. For example, they don't distinguish red well.
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Contrast BizarreAlienSenses and MysteriousAnimalSenses.

* Dogs and wolves in ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'' see the same colors as humans.

Contrast BizarreAlienSenses.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Though the books are told from the point-of-view of cats, they still see things the way humans do. This means being able to make out colors they shouldn't be able to, such as red and green, while not being able to see in the dark.

Unexpectedly Human Perception is the trope where animals perceive (mainly see) the world in a way just like humans, even if in RealLife they have new senses, lack a human one, or otherwise differ from humans in sensory ways.\\\
There are ways this trope manifests, such as a non-primate mammal seeing red and green separately, a bee seeing in a non-[[FishEyeLens fisheye]] way, or things that don't relate to sight, like a caterpillar hearing a wide range of sounds. Another side of this trope is how mammals (or pretty much most animals apart from birds and dragonflies) in fiction rely on sight, rather than smelling (or some other sense) like in RealLife.\\\
Furthermore, all animals in fiction have the five human senses, no more, and no less. Sight is the only variable, as eyeless creatures will be blind, usually.\\\
Can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] if the animal is [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism anthropomorphic]], but this doesn't explain how less human characters will fail to use their non-human main sense.\\\

There are ways this trope manifests, such as a non-primate mammal seeing red and green separately, a bee seeing in a non-[[FishEyeLens fisheye]] way, or things that don't relate to sight, like a caterpillar hearing a wide range of sounds.Another side of this trope is how mammals (or pretty much most animals apart from birds and dragonflies) in fiction rely on sight, rather than smelling (or some other sense) like in RealLife.\\\

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* ''{{VideoGame/Spore}}'': All spore creatures with eyes can see perfectly well, as a human. Also, all creatures can hear, even without the physiological equipment to do so.