All the Colours...

Question.
Do you have a favorite colour?
I’m rather fond of green actually. But anthropologically speaking, people have always had a keen fascination with colours. This fascination is seen simply enough in the appearance of animals throughout history.According to a new study, if left to develop without human interference, animals would not have developed colours seen today. Experts say that:

“Nature abhors novelty, but humans like it. When early farmers came across a
different colour in an animal, it would have been a ‘wow’ reaction.

"Grapes naturally come in varieties of red but the first people to find a white grape
would have said, ‘That’s cool’.

“People replaced nature in terms of selective breeding and protected their different animals from the predators which would have eaten them.

“The Mesopotamians had different coloured farm animals 5,000 years ago, and in that regard they were no different to Paris Hilton, who loves pink chihuahuas.

“This study demonstrates that the human penchant for novelty stretches back thousands of years.

“There is a very long history of selection for crazy coat colours in animals and the evidence suggests that the love of novelty played a large role.”

This explains why Paris Hilton can dress a small dog in a blue sailor suit or a pink tutu and not be seriously accused of animal cruelty. On that note, I would also like to apologise to the Mesopotamians, then again, maybe they liked dressing small animals up like Disney characters, and maybe we just haven’t found the proof yet…

Anyway, the researchers suggest that the findings are best depicted by ‘white’ animals, such as tigers, horses, elephants, Moby Dick etc. who, throughout history have been represented in ritual manners and/or extensively protected.

AND! It totally explains that song! You know, the rainbow song!

Red and Yellow and Pink and Green…Orange and Purple and Blue
I can see a rainbow, see a rainbow, see a rainbow too…..

AND! It could potentially explain the folktale myths behind rainbows! Which is kind of upsetting because I was really hoping that when I get the chance to find the end of a rainbow a little leprechaun man will be there saying “fiddle de de potatoes, what would ye like for findin’ me?”
And I would say… “Hmm, I would like David Tennant wrapped with pink ribbon for my birthday”