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Re: colour

 From: "Bonnie Blackwell, x 3332" <bonn@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu>
 > if mammals lost their colour vision during their tree scurring days
 > at night, then what need did they have for bright colours then either.
 > it would make sense that they would have lost the enzymes to produce 
 > bright skin colours .

They did.  Mammals don't hve bright sckin colors generally, they
have brignt *fur* colors.

Also notice that most small nocturnal mammals are gray colored.

The colorful mammals evolved that condition *after* they returned
to daylight.

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