There’s blue, green, red, purple, etc. birds but most other animals are just brown/black/white. Why is that?
And follow-up question: Would it be possible to genetically modify an animal’s fur to make it a different color?
edit: To the one guy who commented here: Mate, I think you’re shadowbanned. I can’t see your comment.
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Lots of animals do, especially when you take in consideration the fact that some other animals see a larger range of colours than us. We only see the colours we have to to differentiate between fruits, because primates evolved colour vision as fruit eaters.
Like all flying Squirrel species are a bright bubblegum pink and have slight bio-florescence but you can only see it if you can see in the Ultra-violet. And I know this sounds like a piss take, but I promise you if you google it, you’ll find it’s very real.
Birds in particular have bright colours because it’s an important part of their social and mating behavior. They’er much more colourful than you’d think to. They also see into the UV spectrum, and it means that even the females who to us look brown for camouflage are bright UV colours to each other.
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