Desperately need me a community just for tiger facts like this and pictures of tigers. Greatest of the Big Cats
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Oh hell yeah. Big Cats are the best
Feel free to open !bigcats or !tiger I'll be your first follower.
I wish lol. I don't have enough time to manage a community though. if someone else made one though i'd follow it instantly
I vaguely remember someone mentioning a community to give your community ideas to who may want to implement it... I forgot the name.
Do the tigers know they are orange?
Do humans know tigers are green?
Asking the real questions
Probably not, the same way humans don't know we are striped.
Ist is possible to make the own pattern visible? Like with special Cameras and Light?
I mean I saw these on people last time I took acid. Does that count?
No, they too are dichromats
Almost like our eyes evolved to give danger its own colour.
This must be utterly terrifying for them.
"Why? I've always been orange." - tigers
Would not green be the obvious route then?
AFAIK green is more expensive to produce. Plants use it since it's good at absorbing sunlight, but what's the advantage to a tiger, if their prey can't tell the difference?
idk they could make green but then in, let's say, UV it's like a completely different color, so it'd just be the same situation but in another level
This is also why hunting vests are bright orange. Easy for humans to spot, and deer get confused by there being a fucking tiger loose in New England.
Ok this makes complete sense now, thank you!
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So was it just random that their fur is orange and not green? As both would help hunt prey just as well. Or is the advantage of being orange, that it wards away other tigers and predators that might otherwise muscle into its territory and create conflict.
Itβs also orange because mammals canβt produce green pigments, so orange is the next best thing if your prey is red-green colorblind.
Our primary outer protein is basically keratin, which can be tinted orange(carotene), beige (collagen) or brown/black (melanin).
The green pigment is a byproduct of bilirubin catabolism, which we don't have because we use a different pathway to metabolize and recycle it.
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Meanwhile my colorblind ass:
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