Kangaroo camouflage
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To those who have never seen them in the wild, Kangaroos have excellent camoflauge. The colour of their coat, in addition to their behavioual adaptaion of remianing silent and still helps them look almost indistinguishable from trees and/or tree stumps.
With the acknowledgment that Australia has no large native predators. (Beleive it or not)
What selective pressures forced the kangaroo to have such good camouflage abilities?
(The dingo has been proved to be an introduced species from just over 1000 years ago.)
>>8139066
>Australia has no large native predators
>anymore.
>>8139080
this
there were plenty of large and scary mammals and reptiles
lots were herbivorous, but animals like the thylacine were once widespread over the mainland.
>>8139080
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>>8139080
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>>8139066
>Lives on the same continent as cassowaries.
>Doesn't understand the need for camouflage
You're gonna get Naturally Selected :^)
(Incidentally, I couldn't remember what that bird was called so I googled "Australian Murder Bird" because, fool that I am, I thought that this would be sufficient specificity.)
>>8139066
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australia is still thick with humans, which hold hold the place as the most devastating apex predator the continent has ever seen
>>8139066
you need to catch up on your reading
>New studies suggest dingoes may have originated in southern China, travelling to Australia anywhere between 4600 and 18,300 years ago.[22]
>impying vision is the primary sense of most animals.
Most of "mimcry" theories are bullshit
>>8140112
Not most, but enough to warrant camo.
