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a thing i think about sometimes is that tigers are the color they are because the prey they are camouflaging themselves from basically has deuteranopia, dichromatic vision. to the evolutionarily relavant observers, a tiger appears as the same color as the grass and blends in very well. grass-color is, in some way, the "correct" color to perceive the tiger as, not orange. in some sense, i as a trichromat am not really able to perceive a tiger "properly", while someone with red-green colour blindness in some sense, sees the tiger for what they contextually are.

that said, on a less philosophical end more practical level, it's probably still a good thing to have so many trichromatic creatures around, to whom a tiger clearly sticks out , if you are dwelling among tigers


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