i bet those colors only shrimp can see suck major ass
jealousy isn’t the way bro
The shrimp aren’t gonna have sex with you.
you take that back right fucking now
Unfortunate news… scientists have discovered that shrimp do not see “extra colors”.
We thought that they did because they have 12 different molecules for photoreceptors, whereas humans have only 3. BIG difference, right??
Nope. Turns out that they simply do not have the mental wherewithal to blend, and so needed a separate receptor for each color. The human brain adds color emissions together to create a singular representative color, like reverse engineered printing. Shrimp can’t do that. They can’t take light emitting “green” and light emitting “red” and come back with “yellow”, like we do. They have to have a receptor for yellow, and are relatively horrible at distinguishing shades of colors.
So at the end of the day, not only do shrimp not have “extra colors”… they see less than we do. Shrimp can’t see the fake colors :(
I know I make fun of Pliny the Elder a lot, but I genuinely can’t stop thinking about this approach to taxonomy:
[There is a fish called the tursio, which bears a strong resemblance to the dolphin; it differs from it, however, in a certain air of sadness, and is wanting in its peculiar vivacity.]
Like, imagine someone describing an animal to you, but the only information they’ll provide is that it’s sort of like another animal, but much much sadder.
okay so apparently the word “Tursio” is what people in Pliny’s time called the porpoise. for reference, here is a dolphin:
and here is a porpoise:
anyways long story short Pliny was entirely correct stop bullying him
“you ruined a perfectly good dolphin is what you did. look at it, it’s got depression” - Pliny, apparently
we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:
to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this: