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Animals are a bit different from humans--a lot of them ''do'' come in wilder, more flamboyant colors, especially in tropical areas. Animals use bright colors as a way of saying "Don't eat me! I'm poisonous!" or "Look at me! Aren't I a ''sexy beast?''," or even for reasons we're not quite sure of. However, not ''all'' animals come in strange colors--a lot of mammals tend to be the same grayish and yellowish and brownish and reddish colors we humans are, with the brightest colors reserved for birds, insects, and fish. (A few reptiles here and there, too.) And while no one would bat their eye at a blue peacock with green tailfeathers, a ''red'' peacock with bright purple tail feathers would be [[Somewhere an Ornithologist Is Crying|distinctly more unusual]]. For instance, there is no green in mammals (unless you count fur tinted green because of algae) and blue is only found in a few mammal species (unless you count greyish-blue or a blue sheen). It just doesn't exist naturally.
Sometimes animators exaggerate the range of colors, patterns, and markings found on each species of animal in [[Real Life]]. Several species of penguin, like the [
Other times, they're outright strange. [[Blues Clues|Blue dogs]], [[Tiny Toon Adventures|pink]] [[The Amazing World of Gumball (Animation)|rabbits]], [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|pink alligators]], [[My Cage|orange sharks]], and [[Phineas and Ferb|teal-colored platypodes]] abound.
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* Played straight with ''many'' species of fish, but averted with sharks, except for some notable exceptions like the wobbegong and carpet shark.
* Blue lobsters and crabs. Often caught and and kept for pets or tourist attractions. They don't survive long in the wild, due to to the oddity of their coloration.
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* Pink Elephants. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7951331.stm No, seriously.]
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== Western Animation ==
* Applejack from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is orange with an yellow mane and tail.
* Plucky Duck from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' is green, but a green duck is not that strange. Not counting the [
* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' features an orange moose named Tyrone and a blue penguin named Pablo.
* The five major animal characters in ''[[Littlest Pet Shop (Animation)|Littlest Pet Shop]]'' include a blue dog, a purple cat, a pink rabbit and a yellow horse. Only the brown monkey has a normal fur color.
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== Real Life ==
* At ''least'' some breeds of [
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