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Tigers appear orange to humans but green to deer and wild boar due to colour vision differences.
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Same as the deer, dichromatic red/green colourblind. Can't differentiate between red and green
A tiger does not know it's orange
That made me a little sad, but we can’t see our Blaschko’s lines, so I guess they’re not really missing out.
That sounds like an ancient wise proverb
So when an orang cat stands in grass they think they are camouflaged? Neat.