Dynamic Darkness and Bright Stasis in Animals
A universal sensory bias is responsible for animals usually being colored so that our most perceptually dynamic body parts are darker and our relatively static parts are brighter.
“Thus every one would probably agree with Lipps and call a pure yellow happy, a deep blue quiet and earnest, red passionate, violet wistful; would perhaps feel that orange partakes at once of the happiness of yellow and the passion of red, while green partakes of the happiness of yellow and the quiet of blue; and in general that the brighter and warmer tones are joyful and exciting, the darker and colder, more inward and restful.”
— Dewitt H. Parker, The Principles of Aesthetics (1920)
Topics
∘ Marvelous Spatuletails
∘ Vogelkop Superb Birds of Paradise
∘ Western Parotias
∘ Red-Capped Manakins
∘ Flame Bowerbirds
∘ General Bird Coloration
∘ Rainbow Coloration in Birds
∘ Bird Coloration by Taxa
∘ Butterflies
∘ Mammals
∘ Dark — Dynamic Bias
∘ More and Less Excitement
∘ Psychological Duality
∘ Random Bird Sample Data (For Reference)
∘ Works Cited
