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Unusual hair colors in people and fur colors in animals, blue, green, pink, etc, are fairly common in fiction, particularly fantasy. But why don’t we see people with naturally green hair in reality? What would be needed for such colors to exist?

>> No.10613714

>>10613712
Also, we have terms like blonde and brunette for real-life hair colors, what terminology would work best for colors such as the ones we are talking about?

>> No.10613941

>>10613712
Probably bad for blending in to the environment for the most part?

>> No.10613943

>>10613712
>>10613714
>>10613941
I feel like blonde is good for sandy/sunny environments, brown hair for dirty/dark environments, but wouldn't green hair be good for blending in to forest environments? I guess not, apparently brown hair was still better against bark and dirt.

>> No.10613948

>>10613712
The only true green pigment in birds is Turacoverdin. Most greens are just structural blue mixed with carotenoids. Most mammals don't have crazy fur colors because fur didn't evolve for display purposes like feathers did.

>> No.10614549

>>10613712
Of possible interest: http://www.vetico.com.au/news/puppies-with-green-fur-born-in-spain-411

>> No.10614559
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10614559

>>10613712
>Why Aren’t There Green fur Mamma-
Sloths have Green fur
(due to Algae that stick into thei fur)

>> No.10614562
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>>10614559
>thei fur
their* fur

>> No.10614568
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>>10614559 >>10614562
It's moss that grows in Sloths' fur

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>>10613948
>The only true green pigment in birds is Turacoverdin.

The feel when no Parrot girlfriend.
Why even live?

>> No.10614592

>>10613948
I was at an anime convention and there was a biologist talking about that pigment, saying that one day we could engineer humans to have hair colors with it.

>> No.10614679

>>10613712
In anime green=brown, pink=blonde, purple= black orange/red=ginger.

>> No.10614683

>>10614592
>anime convention and there was a biologist
o_O

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>>10614592 >>10614683
>anime convention and there was a biologist
OwO

>> No.10614735

>>10613948
>True color

Fuck off with this retarded shit. Colors do NOT EXIST outside of the perception created by neurology.

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>>10614592 >>10614683
>biologist in an anime convention
we need genetically engineered catgirls

MAKE ANIMES REAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGeKc-zXBcI

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>>10614737
>Green Hair

with CRISPR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKFw2KZA5o

>> No.10615082

>>10613712
Maybe carotene can't into green. You will need a whole new pigment.

>> No.10615149
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10615149

>>10613712
No male would fertilize a female with green hair.

>> No.10616232

>>10614735
Wavelengths of light exist

>> No.10617742

>>10615082
>>10613948
What about pink or blue?

>> No.10618431

>>10614592
Doesn't seem that impossible to me.

>> No.10619665

>>10618431
HOW would we do it, though?

>> No.10619963

>>10615149
superior green genes.
yes pls.

>> No.10621496

>>10619963
Superior?

>> No.10621515

>>10613948
Damn mammals suck.

>> No.10621625

>>10614679
Laughably wrong. Purple is purple. Green is green. They're fucking cartoons, Japs draw whatever looks cool.

>> No.10622684

>>10621625
True enough

>> No.10622880

>>10613712
as I understand it, bright colors in fur are difficult to create because animals get their pigmentation largely from their diet. it's why blue is so hard to find in nature.

>> No.10623666

>>10619665
Isolate the gene responsible for the protein in the bird, replace it where the protein for the color of the hair is. In monkeys. If everything goes right, then you can start putting it in humans.

>> No.10624568

The green monkey has olive fur, close enough.

>> No.10624698

>>10614571
That's structural blue and carotenoids. Only Turacos have Turacoverdin

>> No.10625256

>>10613712
I want to fuck that anime girl