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sadetheruiner t1_j8llxl8 wrote

Same reason you’d never see wild pugs, humans bred pets to be interesting looking(many times doing a grave disservice to their health). Stalking predators like felines are genetically pressured to blend into their hunting environment, so a long haired orange cat would suck at blending into a jungle, get eaten or starve to death.

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svarogteuse t1_j8nqj9h wrote

>so a long haired orange cat would suck at blending into a jungle, get eaten or starve to death.

Tigers would beg to differ.

Many prey animals don't see orange/red as anything different that green. Green is a hard pigment for mammals to produce, but red isn't. Foxes are red, tigers are orange, and neither seem to suck at blending in vs their selected prey.

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