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| - Sometimes, humans in animation and video games have decidedly non-standard skin colors. Instead of being tan and brown, they'll be green, gray, and purple. But they're not the only ones--sometimes, animators have a bit of fun when designing animals as well. And thus, the world is filled with Amazing Technicolor Wildlife. Funny Animals in particular seem to be prone. Compare Pink Elephants -- if the colored wildlife is actually odd in the setting, expect a character to regard it as that trope. Overlaps with Typical Cartoon Animal Colors.
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| - Sometimes, humans in animation and video games have decidedly non-standard skin colors. Instead of being tan and brown, they'll be green, gray, and purple. But they're not the only ones--sometimes, animators have a bit of fun when designing animals as well. And thus, the world is filled with Amazing Technicolor Wildlife. 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 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 Fairy Penguin, have a naturally blue sheen to their feathers, but many animated penguins tend to be bright blue. There are other minor Acceptable Breaks From from the range of colors, markings, and patterns each species of animal can have in Real Life, like solid-colored, non-tabby red cats. Other times, they're outright strange. Blue dogs, pink rabbits, pink alligators, orange sharks, and teal-colored platypodes abound. Little songbirds which are dull-colored in Real Life may be depicted as brightly colored; in a more subtle version, Crows and Ravens are often shown with yellow beaks and feet, though retaining their all-black plumage. Funny Animals in particular seem to be prone. Compare Pink Elephants -- if the colored wildlife is actually odd in the setting, expect a character to regard it as that trope. Overlaps with Typical Cartoon Animal Colors.
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