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Translating the Color Code

news.harvard.edu — From snail shells to bird feathers to the changing skin of a chameleon, nature uses colors in ways that range from the electric blue of a poison dart frog’s warning to the invisible ultraviolet patterns of flowers that call bees to pollinate.

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  • ScottMcIntyre, on 10/06/2008, -0/+10The psychology of color interests me in relation to humans, but I had no idea of these facts about color perception in some animals.

    QFA:"Colors are also viewed differently by different creatures. Some, such as whales, do not have the color vision that humans do; their world is black and white. Other animals, like bees, see colors in the ultraviolet spectrum that humans don’t, perceiving patterns on flowers invisible to the human eye."

  • AmyVernon, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6The most interesting part to me was that the blue color in animals wasn't created by pigments, but rather by "structures" that absorb light in varying ways. And that also affected the greens. Just shows that the more we learn, the less we realize we know.
  • MacBookForMe, on 10/06/2008, -0/+3That could be so scary feeling, sometimes:)

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