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The Skeptics Guide #922 - Mar 11 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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What Colors Do Animals Use?

When people think of animal coloring, they immediately go to what right to camouflage. But there's lots of other things that that animals use coloration for and camouflage. We want attracting mates is one signaling danger, Evan with colorful frogs is yet another. Sometimes it's just yeah, mimicry or it could be an epiphenoma like flamingos or pink, because they eat pink stuff,. Right. It's really an adaptation specifically also very interestingly, we think of reptiles as being green but some are brightly colored.

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