06/06/07
Unprotective coloration -
Categories: My cat is colored like an orca:
Now, the Orca seems, to me, nicely colored, for protection . . . or, more likely, for stealth. Light on the bottom, it would blend into the background, when seen by fish and other prey from below. Dark on the top, it would blend into the background, when seen from above.
My cat, alas, does not inhabit the ocean. Instead, she tends to rest on dark carpets . . . and not on her back, either. So I've stepped on her more than once.
No element of natural selection could explain this inconvenient coloration — this unprotective coloration — since feline coloration is largely a matter of past artificial selection, or perhaps random variation in environments where protective coloration is largely irrelevant.
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