Chickens can see things in colours?
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Chickens, being primarily diurnal (day living) birds (a group that tends to have good vision and colour acuity) probably have at least some ability to distinguish colour.\n\nThe usually drab markings of most chickens (especially wild Galliformes like grouse) are probably more for camoflage than due to an inability to see colour.  There are some Galliform avians that definitely have bright plumage for mate attraction, indicating that colour vision is present in those species (most notably Pavo cristatus - the Peacock), so it's likely that chickens can too.
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Neither, because:\n\ncan chickens fly?\ncan eggs fly?\n\nyou have to look at it from all angles ;-)
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Objects, like apples, reflect certain waves of light, making the colours we see.\n\nWe see colour because light is made up different wavelengths. Objects absorb certain wavelengths of light while reflecting others. An apple appears to be red because it reflects the red wavelength while absorbing all the other colours.
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the chicken with the rooster definetly, cause without a rooster a chiken cannot lay an egg :)\n\nthe chicken crossed the road to see the rooster :D
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Add red coloring.\n\nIt IS necessary, and it DOES NOT harm the birds.
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from the chicken....wink wink
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Interesting question. Our humans eyes only see blue, but in fact there is a myriad of colors in the sky projected by the sun's rays. I think the other colors are in the ultraviolet spectrum, but I'm not entirely sure
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I believe your are referring to the black billed magpies. They have a black head and breast and a white belly and shoulder. Their wings are actually tinted with blue green but if you are not looking for the color you may not see it.
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Camouflaged Animals:\n\nCOLOR CHANGE\n>>Reptiles and Amphibians (like frogs, toads,chameleon) and some fish can change the colors of their skin or scales to match a surface that's near them. Their coloration is determined by biochromes in living cells. Biochromes may be in cells at the skin's surface or in cells at deeper levels. These deeper-level cells are called chromatophores. Cuttlefish species, can manipulate their chromatophores to change their overall skin color. Chameleons can produce a wide range of colors and patterns on their skin, but they do this primarily to express mood, not to blend in with different environments.\n \n>>Mammals (like deer, squirrels, or moles) have earth tones color to match trees or dirt.\n\n>> Far north  animals often have white fur or feathers in winter. When spring melts the snows, the white fur and feathers fall out. Pigments in the skin cells change. When new feathers and fur grow in, they match the new color or pattern of the landscape.\n\nCOUNTER SHADING\n>> Mice, white-tailed dear, Canada geese, otters and largemouth bass use a kind of camouflage called counter-shading. These animals have bodies that are dark on top and light on the bottom.When sunlight shines on an animal's darker colors, it makes them look lighter. When the animal's lighter-colored parts are in shadow, it makes them look darker. The two areas of color blend together when seen from a distance. The animal's outline is harder to pick out from surrounding patterns. \n\nELEMENT OF DISGUISE\n>>Insecta (like green katydid or grasshopper) - have a solid body color that matches the color of its environment. Many insects that feed on plants have solid green bodies during part or all of their lives\n\n>>Many animals have distinctive designs on their bodies that serve to conceal them . These designs, which might be spots, stripes or a group of patches, can help the animal in a couple of ways.This disruptive coloration is particularly effective when animals in a species are grouped together. To a lion, a herd of zebras doesn't look like a whole bunch of individual animals, but more like a big, striped mass. The vertical stripes all seem to run together, making it hard for a lion to stalk and attack one specific zebra. The stripes may also help a single zebra hide in areas of tall grass. Since lions are colorblind, it doesn't matter that the zebra and surrounding environment are completely different colors. \n\n>>Walking stick, an insect that looks like an ordinary twig. A predator can easily distinguish a walking stick from its surroundings, but the predator thinks its only a stick, and so ignores it. \n\nIMITATION\n>>Swallowtail butterflies and many insects often use a kind of camouflage called imitation. The shape of their bodies, along with their coloring, makes them look like other things.\n\nMIMICRY\n>>Viceroy butterfly and many harmless insects use mimicry.The monarch butterfly is a bad-tasting insect that most birds will not eat. The viceroy butterfly has a black-and-orange wing pattern that closely matches the monarch's. Birds who see a viceroy leave it alone, thinking it's a monarch. Many harmless insects look and fly like bees, insects which can really sting.♥\n\nFor more camouflaged animals visit this link:\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/camouflage.shtml
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Why is there no mammal with green fur? Green is a good camouflage color, and nonmammals (for example, frogs, snakes, and birds) do come in green. Why not mammals?\n\nThis is similar to the first question I asked on yahoo! answers, and this was the link from the best answer to that question. It was exactly what I was looking for, hope you think so too.\n\n\nI know from my general zoology classes that mammals can make only two kinds of pigment: melanin (black or brown pigment) and the reddish-yellow pigment that red-haired people have. So my first idea for a simple explanation of the nonexistence of green mammals was to say that mammals just can't make green pigment for some reason. This is of course not a good evolutionary explanation, but at least it superficially answers the question.\n\nAs I started researching this a bit more, I was astounded to discover that frogs, birds, and others in the tetrapod, or four-legged, world can't make green pigment, either! Or blue, for that matter. It turns out that all color variation that we see in tetrapod animals is the result of different combinations of patterns of deposition and refraction of the same two types of pigments: black and yellow-red. A chameleon's color changes because of rapid shape changes in refractory cells in its skin, not by rapid production or release of an actual pigment. Frogs are green because of the pattern of refraction of blue light by special cells in their skin, which blends with their yellow pigment.\n\nThe colors of bird feathers are also generated by light refraction but by a different mechanism. The surface of feathers has microscopic ridges that form ordered tracks, much like the surface of a CD. The spacing of the ridges and the size and orientation of the pigment granules they contain determine the feathers' brilliant greens and blues (see links in reference 2). Tiny air pockets in feathers can add to color variation in birds. Light refraction is also responsible for the color of the human iris, which can range into deep blue or green hues. Another example is the sky-blue nose of the mandrill. For an exploration of the ways animals make different colors, see reference 1.\n\nAs you can see, the question is really why mammals don't have the ability to generate a variety of colors in their fur. This is a difficult question, and until we master time travel—to be able to trace back the evolution of mammals—we won't know the answer with certainty. But it's interesting to speculate, so here are some possible explanations.\n\n1. I think that the most important difference is in the lifestyle of mammals. Being warm-blooded animals, they are constantly in search of food and are moving a lot. Even if an animal has the best camouflage, as soon as it starts moving, it is more easily detected. In contrast, many amphibians and reptiles can spend a long time being motionless, and here looking the same as a leaf nearby helps more. I believe that during evolution, mammals have "invested" more into working out active escape mechanisms (for example, running away and hiding in burrows) rather than into developing passive camouflage techniques.\n\n2. Scientists believe that the first mammals were relatively small, ratlike creatures that ate insects. Their habitats were probably different in terms of background color patterns compared with the habitats of amphibians and reptiles. Mammals, of course, originated on land, while amphibians never leave the source of water. More green is around amphibians, and therefore we find more green amphibians.\n\nIn contrast to their early ancestors, many mammals are now large, and for them, a factor of size comes into play in determining coloration. As we know from classical statues, it's difficult to cover a whole mammal with a fig leaf (but it is quite possible for a frog). A solid-green mammal would in fact stand out in real habitats rather than be hidden. For a large animal, being dappled h
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Buy three live chickens, spray paint them and number them one, two, and four. Let them loose. ;)
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Probably something to do with a cock (chicken).
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It's just a color.\n\n\nMaybe they are color blind
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all the time! Usually i see just the light reflectiong off their wings cause they move so fast! It's a good sign if you do see them. kinda lucky.
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i didnt know chickens could fly.
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why dont chickens pee