Why Aren't Mammals More Colorful?

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Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: skl.sh/scishow-14 Birds, bugs, fish and more come in every color of the rainbow, meanwhile mammals seem to offer more generic pallets, and dinosaurs might be to blame. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/chlorophyll/chlorophyll_h.htm academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/55/2/125/221478 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712437/ socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SantanaAdaptiveEvolutionColor.pdf www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636084/ www.researchgate.net/publication/225366953_Studying_Primate_Color_Towards_Visual_System-dependent_Methods citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.320.7323&rep=rep1&type=pdf pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8925/351771d909ebf4f485e6e00696eb2f1d52ea.pdf www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/12/347736896/how-animals-hacked-the-rainbow-and-got-stumped-on-blue www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/7I.html www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-tyndall-effect-605756 sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/pigments-patterning-the-living-world/ journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029117 Images commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysochus_auratus_-_Dogbane_Beetle_(6881287554).jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Synchiropus_splendidus_2_Luc_Viatour.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Passion_Flower_(2872082139).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg#/media/File:Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_pigments.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_Zebra_in_South_Africa.JPG en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eomaia_NT.jpg#/media/File:Eomaia_NT.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Megazostrodon_sp._Natural_History_Museum_-_London.jpg#/media/File:Megazostrodon_sp._Natural_History_Museum_-_London.jpg

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