Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.
It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)
Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?
Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.
It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.
We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.
I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.
I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?
Wool was a huge industry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land.
And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand.
This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade.
So what did they do?
They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required.
So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?
So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter.
But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them.
I hope this a shit post cause that’s not even close to being true.
When I was growing up, my parents let me play computer games. Some were strategy games based on history or cheesy Tolkienesque fantasy. Here are the horrible politics I was exposed to according to conservatives.
Lords of the Realm 2: If you don’t take care of your peasants, they won’t help you later and it will be your fault.
Caesar 3: Your citizens require access to food, health services, and public safety services or they’ll die in a famine, plague, fire, or collapsed building and it will be your fault.
Lords of Magic: If you don’t pay your party members for doing their job (which includes hazards like going into abandoned manors and crystal mines and water caves, and confronting enemies like necromancers on giant flying bats) then they’ll walk off the job and it will be your fault. If you don’t bother healing them and then they die that’s also your fault. If you don’t give your excess resources to your cities so they can grow and protect themselves and they get razed by a handful of skeletons and a talking cat in three turns, guess whose fault that is, it’s yours.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3: You can only do so many things per day. Large stacks of similar units are multiplied in power than the same number of units moving as individuals– and less susceptible to Berserk. You can defuse confrontation with diplomacy and gain powerful allies that way. Spooky skeletons and regal unicorns can coexist peacefully so long as they follow the same leader. Those who are immune to Armageddon benefit if it’s brought on
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