Re: Feathering in coelurosaurs

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@friesen.net>]

At 04:00 PM 4/4/00 -0400, Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> The value of gaudy coloration would be lost on most mammals, most of which
> lack color vision. Significantly, primates do have color vision to go with
> their gaudy posteriors.

Not true - actually mammals have *reduced* color vision.  Most mammals are 
what in humans would be called red-green color-blind.  That is they have 
only two types of color-sensitive pigment instead of the three in humans, 
and the three or four in the reptile clade.

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