'Cat-Eye' Boy Video Said To Show Chinese Child Who Sees In Dark
By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 01/31/2012 09:46 AM EST on
Lifes Little Mysteries According to a news reel from China, a
young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a
Siamese cat's, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when
illuminated by a flashlight, and his night vision is good enough
to enable him to fill out questionnaires while sitting in a
pitch black room — or so say the reporters who visited Nong
Yousui in his hometown of Dahua three years ago. The footage of
Nong and his strange-looking eyes originally surfaced in 2009;
it got little attention at the time, but is now making a splash
all over the Web. If the boy really does have a genetic mutation
that confers night vision, then he would be an interesting
subject for analysis by vision scientists, evolutionary
biologists, and genetic engineers alike — but does he? The
experts we shared the video with say Nong does have unusually
colored irises considering his ethnicity,