well, it's clearly genetic. on so many levels. colors, what you're wearing (even if you're just a sloth) and how that impacts self protection, survival of the next generation and...perhaps dating, if there's any time left over.
here is a picture drawn by my son jonah. his biology assignment was to create a fictional species that had evolved to survive its environment. no wonder, with my deeply superficial guidance as his mother all these years...my son chose to look at what the sloth wears. jonah and his friend "spyder" invented a sloth who survives and tricks its predators by looking like a giant yellow banana. and i'm proud to note that the heterosexual (so far) boys embraced nuance and "accessorizing" along the way...no mere broad strokes for these guys (and this sloth). a key part of the Choco-Mellow-Yellow Sloth's ensemble is a short brown arm so that when it's "playing dead" it tricks its predator by looking like the harmless stem of the banana. yet..if the predator comes too close, the long yellow arm is ready and able to Slash and protect upon attack.
makes me wish i could draw as well and as authentically and with as much purpose and cleverness as my son.
i'll keep trying.
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