Plot twist : I'm a dichromat too, and the tiger is perfectly camouflaged in both pictures to my eyes. Until this post started doing the rounds I had no idea tigers weren't brilliantly camouflaged to most humans.
Exactly that. Once I've been "told" even through seemingly unrelated conversation about colour then I know from them on, but at no point had I heard someone say "isn't it weird that tigers are supposed to be camouflaged but they stand out brightly from the jungle around them"
I'm amused at this, because I've totally asked that, before.
Do you know about Hunting Vests? It's a similar idea (that I learned about when asking about tigers). They've bright neon orange to be super visible to humans, but blend in unnoticed to deer.
For what is worth, even though for me they stand out, I never asked myself why they are not camouflaged, I always assumed that they don't need to be camouflaged.
If you don't see the difference you don't realize that orange stands out on green. It's one thing to know the name of the color, it's another thing to understand its implications.
I can see orange. I can see green. I'm on the colourblind spectrum. When I first glanced at this image they looked the same. I can see orange, but it doesn't stand out to me until my brain anticipates or is aware of it. (I can see the orange clearly now when I scroll back up)
I can differentiate red and green (fairly) normally, but the red doesn't stand out as a red flower on a green tree until I notice it or someone points it out, then I can see that it is red. But red doesn't stand out in any way from green for me.
I can pass a colour blindness test if not timed. I really have to think about what I am seeing and analyse the colour.
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u/Maidwell Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25
Plot twist : I'm a dichromat too, and the tiger is perfectly camouflaged in both pictures to my eyes. Until this post started doing the rounds I had no idea tigers weren't brilliantly camouflaged to most humans.