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Re: color
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Bobbi Cordy <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:25:09 -0400
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To blend in with their environment???

Art Weil wrote:

> Q-Man asks:
>         Hecky darn; I may have mentioned this before. Sometimes my
> memory is just a memory.
>     BUT critters in the tropics are more colorful than critters near the
> poles. This goes for birds, shells, fish, etc.
>     What is the scientific explanation? Why do northern climates appear
> hospitable to only white, black and gray? Why are colorful critters
> unable to survive farther north? Well, you get the idea.
>     Question Man

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Jim and Bobbi Cordy
Specializing in Self Collected Caribbean Species
Merritt Island Florida

2001 SHELL ODYSSEY
July 7-11
Port Canaveral, FL

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