From peacocks sporting brilliant blues to parrots bedecked with ultramarine feathers-and even monkeys with cerulean scrotums-the blue hues are especially beautiful.
When we see creatures like this lizard, the morpho butterfly, the blue cotingas, or blue eyes, we may put two and two together and say,
"Ah~ that’s blue pigmentation, right there!"
#Blue #Animal #Structural colors
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【Source】
H.E.Hinton, G.M.Jarman., (1973). “Physiological colour change in the elytra of the hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules.”
Makoto Goda, Ryozo Fujii., (1995). "Blue Chromatophores in Two Species of Callionymid Fish."
Joseph T. Bagnara et al., (2006). "On the blue coloration of vertebrates."
Gill, Frank B, (2006). "Ornithology (3rd ed.)" p. 97
Hill, Geoffrey E, (2006). "Bird Coloration: Function and Evolution." p. 366-367
Jungyul Park et al., (2010). "Biologically inspired humidity sensor based on three-dimensional photonic crystals."
Doekele G. Stavenga et al., (2011). "Kingfisher feathers . colouration by pigments, spongy nanostructures and thin films."
Michel C. Milinkovitch et al., (2015). "Photonic crystals cause active colour change in chameleons."
Yulan Fu et al., (2016). "Structural colors: from natural to artificial systems."
Chang, H.-K., Park, J. (2018). "Flexible all-solid-state electrically tunable photonic crystals for chameleon-inspired artificial skin."
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