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Patented: History of Inventions

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Natural Selection Is the Great Designer

There's all kinds of digestive organs that she created as well as there's one of my favourites is the Pantone colours of the feathers. So different types of birds prefer different colours and those colours are associated with different companies. They're like Desani Blue, Coca-Cola Red, you know, because they like to eat different colour bottle caps. And so then she kind of speculates that through the ingestion,. you know, a bit like flamingos right through the ingestion of too many bottle caps of a particular colour that their feathers start to take on the Pantone colour - which has almost religious overtones. I refer you to the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic where there's all

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