The Bizarre World of Living Color | Compilation

The video explores the fascinating world of coloration in nature, focusing on the most intensely colored species. It explains how structural coloration, rather than pigments, creates vibrant colors in some plants and animals, using examples like the marbleberry and the Kypochylus beetle. The video also discusses the blackest black feathers of birds of paradise and why mammals generally have more subdued colors. It delves into the evolutionary reasons behind this, including the nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis, and highlights the differences in color vision between mammals and other animals.

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