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arowana posca in sketchbook

Avatar: The Last Airbender Fand-Home Prints by @Kyri45

That’d be the cows. They do that.

“Unearthly screams”

Deer or foxes.

“Phantom cries in the woods.”

Cougar. Maybe lambs.

“A rustle as if some unseen hand had disturbed the plants, and a wet gasping gurgle”

1. Excellent pun

2. Wasn’t snow white kept in a glass coffin while she slept? Very vintage fairy tale aesthetic.

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate.  It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic.  (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.)  See how orange and green look to them?

or how about a leopard?

It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.

The colors that seems most pertinent when you look at a forest ecosystem are the bright colors that pop out, however camouflaging animals are trying to blend into the background that you don’t even notice.

There’s a lot of brown, gray and black in this picture, but it’s harder to notice than the green.

That brown, gray and black lurking in the background is what gets you…

With some animals, if you’ve never seen them in a specific environment, you wouldn’t even guess that they ARE camouflaging

My favorite example of this is garter snakes. This lady looks pretty striking, right? Maybe those bold colors are to warn predators…

Spot the snake!

On that note I really wonder how many animals are using camouflage and we can’t even detect it. Like , how many animals have camouflage that can only affect predators that see ultraviolet light? How many animals that look bold to us have colors that their predators can’t see?

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i thought that must have been the case but i also couldn’t stop thinking that you had done a REALLY good job of making your point and i was about to get eaten by a wolf or something (cause those trees don’t look like the kind of trees I’d expect to see a big cat lurking behind)

I’ve gone ahead and added a dangerous predator so that future generations won’t have to suffer the way I did: