It's hard being green
Jim
know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
Reddfrogg
Some tree sloths appear green, due to the algae that clings to their
fur.
http://www.arkive.org/maned-three-toed-sloth/bradypus-torquatus/info.html
"The cream and tan coloured coat is usually tinged green from the blue-
green algae that live in grooves in the hair, providing great
camouflage for the sloth in the trees"
I've also heard that some polar bears that live in zoos take on a
green tinge from algae in their enclosures.
Most mammilian pigments tend to be variations on black, yellow and
brown. Some mammals have blue pigments, such as Mandrills, but I
don't know why green is not on the pallet.
DJT
IAAH
Damn you. This may keep me up of nights.
But here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1169/is_n5_v33/ai_17338585/
is a possible explanation.
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Caranx latus
<http://deoxy.org/gaia/eyefood/sloth.jpg>
OK, OK. I know. It's green, not because its fur is green, but because it
grows a crop of algae. No idea why fur does not seem to come in green.
Sean_Q_
> Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I
> know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
> no green mammals.
Barbar the Elephant's king turned green when he ate a bad mushroom.
I don't suppose that counts, does it. But I've had a vivid memory
of the picture since I was a toddler.
SQ
Christopher Denney
I recall a comedic routine about the lack of blue food too.
Maybe there is a conspiracy to exclude certain colors from
participating in our lives, as mammals, fully.
:)
Devils Advocaat
This may shed some light (or fur) on the subject:
Sapient Fridge
<91f9db62-937b-49be...@k4g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Reddfrogg <redd...@bresnan.net> writes
>On Nov 20, 6:39�pm, Jim <jimwille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is a curious thing: �there are no green mammals, as far as I
>> know. � �There are green birds, reptiles, �amphibians, and fish, but
>> no green mammals. �How come is that? �Anybody know?
>
>
>Some tree sloths appear green, due to the algae that clings to their
>fur.
>
>http://www.arkive.org/maned-three-toed-sloth/bradypus-torquatus/info.html
>
>"The cream and tan coloured coat is usually tinged green from the blue-
>green algae that live in grooves in the hair, providing great
>camouflage for the sloth in the trees"
>
>I've also heard that some polar bears that live in zoos take on a
>green tinge from algae in their enclosures.
Yep, the algae grows in the hollow fibres of their hair. Probably not a
problem in their native environment.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-02/26/content_309625.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26591321/
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<christoph...@gmail.com>:
But there is blue food, some non-hybrid varieties of potatoes and corn.
There may be others. I'm guessing he did not know about them.
Susan Silberstein
Mark Evans
> In talk.origins I read this message from Christopher Denney
>
> >On Nov 20, 5:39 pm, Jim <jimwille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I
> >> know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
> >> no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
>
> >I recall a comedic routine about the lack of blue food too.
> >Maybe there is a conspiracy to exclude certain colors from
> >participating in our lives, as mammals, fully.
> >:)
>
> But there is blue food, some non-hybrid varieties of potatoes and corn.
> There may be others. I'm guessing he did not know about them.
>
> Susan Silberstein
Blueberries. Blue birds? I had a ham once that turned blue, and
green with a bit of yellow.
Mark Evans
Ernest Major
<41714107-2b6d-43c8...@p33g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
Mark Evans <markev...@gmail.com> writes
There a few berries that are blue if you stretch a point. Apart from
blueberries there several other edible Vacciniums, and honeyberry
(Lonicera caerulea var edulis), and even perhaps sloe.
--
alias Ernset Major
heekster
wrote:
>Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I
>know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
>no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
Some mammals have green eyes, (humans, cats).
Woland
> On Nov 20, 6:39 pm, Jim <jimwille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I
> > know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
> > no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
>
> Some tree sloths appear green, due to the algae that clings to their
> fur.
>
>
> "The cream and tan coloured coat is usually tinged green from the blue-
> green algae that live in grooves in the hair, providing great
> camouflage for the sloth in the trees"
>
> I've also heard that some polar bears that live in zoos take on a
> green tinge from algae in their enclosures.
>
> Most mammilian pigments tend to be variations on black, yellow and
> brown. Some mammals have blue pigments, such as Mandrills, but I
> don't know why green is not on the pallet.
>
> DJT
Polar bears can appear green as well. Or purple.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2353112/detail.html
rmacfarl
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Cory Albrecht
No, they are actually deep purple, not blue, regardless of what people say.
http://stevelummer.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/teosinte_hopi_blue.jpg
Stuart
> In talk.origins I read this message from Christopher Denney
>
> >On Nov 20, 5:39 pm, Jim <jimwille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I
> >> know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
> >> no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
>
> >I recall a comedic routine about the lack of blue food too.
> >Maybe there is a conspiracy to exclude certain colors from
> >participating in our lives, as mammals, fully.
> >:)
>
> But there is blue food, some non-hybrid varieties of potatoes
Okinawan sweet potatoes. Nice and purple. You gotta boil them all day,
but nice and delicious
Stuart
Burkhard
http://www.heritage-potatoes.co.uk/shop.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_9&products_id=34
heekster
Cory Albrecht
Looks rather more purple than blue to me.
Cory Albrecht
Rather obviously purple, I would think.
I asked on twitter, and the only really blue food other than blueberries
that anybody could come up with was concord grapes.
A quick image search on on Google shows that, like blueberries, they can
often be purplish, but they are a real blue often enough to count.
heekster
Duck. It is moving towards you, and is blue-shifted into violet.
heekster
<coryal...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>heekster wrote, on 09-11-22 12:32 PM:
>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:20:27 -0800, Susan S
>> <otoerem...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In talk.origins I read this message from Christopher Denney
>>> <christoph...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> On Nov 20, 5:39 pm, Jim<jimwille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I
>>>>> know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but
>>>>> no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
>>>>
>>>> I recall a comedic routine about the lack of blue food too.
>>>> Maybe there is a conspiracy to exclude certain colors from
>>>> participating in our lives, as mammals, fully.
>>>> :)
>>>
>>> But there is blue food, some non-hybrid varieties of potatoes and corn.
>>> There may be others. I'm guessing he did not know about them.
>>>
>>
>> http://1001resepi.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/eggplant.jpg
>>
>
>Rather obviously purple, I would think.
>
It is its own color, actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant_%28color%29
>I asked on twitter, and the only really blue food other than blueberries
>that anybody could come up with was concord grapes.
>
>A quick image search on on Google shows that, like blueberries, they can
>often be purplish, but they are a real blue often enough to count.
Bleu cheese has blue mold veins. I don't know if that counts.
Some lobsters are blue, spectacularly so.
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/media/22.jpg
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/media/23.jpg
Mark Isaak
Mussels, too, at least on the outside.
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