It sure does. Realistically, they seem to be more playful than actually aggressive which would make this a more adaptive behavior. But I'm super fascinated by memetics in animals which you also can find in ant mills, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKwQxO4EZU
While I don’t want to kick off any tennis ball hop-ha, I don’t think the statement “that colour is lime” is helping anyone!
Lime (the colour) is also known as “lime green” like, well, a lime. It’s not (in my country!) consistently used to mean “yellowy green”.... google an actual lime and you’ll see what I mean!
And that’s all rather beside the point. the article makes clear that PLENTY of people think these balls are yellow. Like a lemon. Or green. Not yellowy green. That’s why people are getting agitated! If you are a person who thinks tennis balls are yellowy green I can see why you might think these people are just short of some vocabulary (“yellowy green”) and everyone ACTUALLY thinks tennis balls are the same colour that everyone else does. But honestly, that’s not what’s going on here.
While i do agree that there *are* perceptive differences, let alone from the varying distribution of receptors on the retina which makes for subtle variations in color perceptions, not to speak of e.g. red-green-colorblindness, i still don't think that these variations in color perceptions are in the same league as the cognitive phenomenon which was the dress, which was more akin to an optical illusion where the lighting and shadows played a large role.
Ok, fine, the color of tennis balls are divisive :)
The orca thing makes me think of the Paulus Potter painting ‘Punishment of the Hunter’
It sure does. Realistically, they seem to be more playful than actually aggressive which would make this a more adaptive behavior. But I'm super fascinated by memetics in animals which you also can find in ant mills, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKwQxO4EZU
Amazing. Going to show this to the kids. Why you shouldn’t just do what everyone else is doing.
While I don’t want to kick off any tennis ball hop-ha, I don’t think the statement “that colour is lime” is helping anyone!
Lime (the colour) is also known as “lime green” like, well, a lime. It’s not (in my country!) consistently used to mean “yellowy green”.... google an actual lime and you’ll see what I mean!
And that’s all rather beside the point. the article makes clear that PLENTY of people think these balls are yellow. Like a lemon. Or green. Not yellowy green. That’s why people are getting agitated! If you are a person who thinks tennis balls are yellowy green I can see why you might think these people are just short of some vocabulary (“yellowy green”) and everyone ACTUALLY thinks tennis balls are the same colour that everyone else does. But honestly, that’s not what’s going on here.
Can’t believe I typed all that.
While i do agree that there *are* perceptive differences, let alone from the varying distribution of receptors on the retina which makes for subtle variations in color perceptions, not to speak of e.g. red-green-colorblindness, i still don't think that these variations in color perceptions are in the same league as the cognitive phenomenon which was the dress, which was more akin to an optical illusion where the lighting and shadows played a large role.
Ok, fine, the color of tennis balls are divisive :)