Why are tigers orange when their surroundings are mainly green

Answer (1 of 13): Deer, the tigers main prey, lack the color receptor to identify red and orange. Which makes sense, why would a deer need to pick up on red and orange in its environment? So it wasn’t necessary for its survival, at least not initially. So the tiger evolved the color of its coat t

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Tigers appear to be pondering adding another uniform

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Why did tigers evolve to be orange rather than some less

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