The Colours of Animals Their Meaning And Use Especially Considered in the Case
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Placed upon a leafy branch in strong light it became 1 Certain fish habitually seek their food by the olfactory and tactile senses. See Bateson, I. E. P. 214. VAKIABLE RESEMBLANCE IN VERTEBRATA, ETC. 89 yellowish-green in a very short time, the change beginning in a few seconds. At night when it was asleep it became light and straw-coloured. In the winter it died, probably on account of the scarcity and monotony of the only insect diet which could be obtained for it. For many days before its de...ath it became almost black and lost all power of changing its colour. Its weakened nervous system either ceased to respond to the influence of light, or was unable to pro- duce any effect upon the pigment cells, which were thus paralysed, with their pigment permanently diffused. Green frogs also generally become dark before they die. Explanation of darkness of blind animals Some authorities have maintained that an animal of a kind which possesses the power of altering its colour should, when blind, become light- instead of dark-coloured.
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