While white peacocks are said to be white and not albino - does this male get more female peacocks (which are usually attracted to color)?Or if a female - are the colored peacocks more or less attracted to her because she is white?
White seems to be the thing to be Down Under - but would this kangaroo benefit from it's color?
It would be hard for this crocodile to sneak up on prey with it's distinct coloration.
If this wise owl hunts at night - wouldn't it's coloring (or lack thereof) make it more difficult to be stealth?
Don't lions use their coloring to blend in with the brush of their hunting grounds?
Does this help or harm zebras and their fabled ability to disappear?
And this gorilla just seems mad to be white.Or maybe he's just mad at all of the darker primates.
Interesting. I had never thought of color, or the absence thereof, in this way before. In a way, it turns the dominant paradigm on its head, that paradigm which sets white as the standard of beauty. However, in the animal kingdom, in most instances, white is an anamoly, an aberration.
ReplyDelete...Or a fatal flaw in the unforgiving world of survival of the fittest.
ReplyDeleteThis is not to say that white people are an anomaly or an aberration. they aren't anomalies because they aren't white (I mean this in the strictest sense that white is the absence of color), they are merely the lighter/lightest shade of brown.
White is also usually recessive in the genetics. But I agree with No Face, white people are not white just the lightest shade of brown.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in a attempt to express superiority they decided to identify theirselves with the rare. But, when you test it against natural law the example that was used falls short of greatness.
Yep, those are the points of the last few posts.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I have learned the lesson!
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