Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange. Since many of their prey animals have bad colour vision the orange that stands out to us actually looks the same as the foliage to them.
Yes! While colour names are admittedly arbitrary cultural artifacts, tigers are famously considered to be orange and black striped. The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.
Ya, I wouldn't personally call all those orange myself to be honest. All colour names are arbitrary but orange especially so since its a more recent invention (on a historical time scale) and our brains do some funky post processing stuff to differentiate it from brown (which is the mostly the same hue as orange, just dull as opposed to vibrant). So what exactly counts as orange is a bit of a mess even compared to other colours.
Personally I think redheads are cuter, it's an aesthetic driving evolution, like the pretty male birds. They also seem to be crazier, but evolution doesn't care as long as reproduction happens. Happier in a world with redheads, nevertheless.
I love redheads and I didn't really understand the "ginger" hate in the US -- just thought it was dumb exaggerated stuff. I moved (back) to the UK and so many people were like "gingers are disgusting" "hey lobut, ask Sam what colour his pubes are" .. I'm like wtf is going on here, I don't understand it?
Some of my UK friends said it comes from the hatred of the Irish? Not sure why it'd be like that in the US though, it all seems weird to me.
Speaking as a redhead who got bullied for it a bit in school, the south park episode really upped the hate when it came out and started the whole "gingers don't have souls" line
I've personally noticed that I am not attracted to red hair in itself but that I sometimes happened to be attracted to women with red hair, who had a slight correlation to certain physical characteristics (eye shape, face shape, and yeah, body type) that I found attractive. So it always seemed to me like being attracted to women despite their red hair, rather than because of their red hair.
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Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange. Since many of their prey animals have bad colour vision the orange that stands out to us actually looks the same as the foliage to them.
That's also why hunting clothes are orange camo. Invisible to the prey, clearly visible to the fellow hunter.
Also why your dog can’t see the red ball in the green grass.
tigers are orange?
Yes! While colour names are admittedly arbitrary cultural artifacts, tigers are famously considered to be orange and black striped. The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.
you must have edited that page after i have read :)
Fascinating. Though quite a few of the tiles don't look orange to me at all.
same here 🤷
look at just the burnt umber and papaya whip(?)
Ya, I wouldn't personally call all those orange myself to be honest. All colour names are arbitrary but orange especially so since its a more recent invention (on a historical time scale) and our brains do some funky post processing stuff to differentiate it from brown (which is the mostly the same hue as orange, just dull as opposed to vibrant). So what exactly counts as orange is a bit of a mess even compared to other colours.
i know that some cultures used the same word for blue and green. They didn't perceive 2 different colours but hues of, for example, glaz.
orange is linked to the fruit in many languages. that's why i posted those 2 photographs together.
Orangutans too are orange and i'm sorry for writing this sentence :) At least they're not striped.
The question is, are they black with orange stripes, or orange with black stripes?
same as zebras, which are black with white stripes
In the dark years of persistent autumn, the soulless redhead tribe dominated the wild forests.
Exactly. MediumGray beat me to it, but that adaptation in Tigers helped them be better hunters.
It's most likely that redheads at some point earned their reputation for soullessness.
I mean it made the largest empire at the time build a long ass wall between them.
Ahh yes, Ginger Island on the Grandline.
Personally I think redheads are cuter, it's an aesthetic driving evolution, like the pretty male birds. They also seem to be crazier, but evolution doesn't care as long as reproduction happens. Happier in a world with redheads, nevertheless.
I love redheads and I didn't really understand the "ginger" hate in the US -- just thought it was dumb exaggerated stuff. I moved (back) to the UK and so many people were like "gingers are disgusting" "hey lobut, ask Sam what colour his pubes are" .. I'm like wtf is going on here, I don't understand it?
Some of my UK friends said it comes from the hatred of the Irish? Not sure why it'd be like that in the US though, it all seems weird to me.
Speaking as a redhead who got bullied for it a bit in school, the south park episode really upped the hate when it came out and started the whole "gingers don't have souls" line
I've personally noticed that I am not attracted to red hair in itself but that I sometimes happened to be attracted to women with red hair, who had a slight correlation to certain physical characteristics (eye shape, face shape, and yeah, body type) that I found attractive. So it always seemed to me like being attracted to women despite their red hair, rather than because of their red hair.
Maybe we need to put them into preservations like pandas.
Like red pandas, you mean.
Naw, it's just for being fancy.