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svarogteuse t1_j8nqj9h wrote

Reply to comment by sadetheruiner in What wild cat did my house cat descend from? Why aren’t there a variety of housecat-like animals in savannahs and jungles? Why can orange, grey, and other patterns of pet floofs be seen in homes but not in the wild? by writing_spork

>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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