How Color Vision Came to the Animals
How Color Vision Came to the Animals
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
August 10, 201710m 5s
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Show Notes
Animals are living color. Wasps buzz with painted warnings. Birds shimmer their iridescent desires. Fish hide from predators with body colors that dapple like light across a rippling pond. And all this color on all these creatures happened because other creatures could see it. The natural world is so showy, it’s no wonder scientists have been fascinated with animal color for centuries. Even today, the questions how animals see, create, and use color are among the most compelling in biology.
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