Eight more oddly colored creatures. If you missed previous part, click
here.
1. Metallic Green Bees
Bees come in a
variety of colors including red, blue, and green, not just yellow and black stripes. Bees in the genus
Agapostemon are not only green, but shiny.
2. Yellow Lobsters
A yellow lobster was caught in Newport, Rhode Island. Approximately 1 in every 30 million lobsters is yellow.
3. Blue Tree Frogs
Mediterranean tree frogs are normally bright green, but every once and a while a blue specimen is born.
4. Orange Crocodiles
This is Snappy, the crocodile that surprised his handlers by suddenly turning orange in late 2011. The handlers suspected that iron or tannins in the water were responsible. No harm came to Snappy after he turned orange. Coincidentally, an orange alligator was sighted earlier in 2011.
5. Pink African Grey Parrots
Pink patches in African Greys (which, as you might guess, are normally grey) began as a naturally occurring color morph. Over the years, breeders ended up with 100% pink specimens. The first all-pink Greys sold for over $150,000.
6. White Monarch Butterflies
White Monarch Butterflies are
rare variant of the standard orange Monarch that appear in roughly 1% of the Monarch population.
7. Purple Corn Snakes
Corn snakes are normally red with orange saddle marks, but there are a variety of corn snake color morphs ranging from fluorescent orange to purple.
8. Green Sloths
Sloths fur is an ideal environment for blue-green algae. Unlike most fur-bearing animals, sloth's fur will absorb water, which encourages algae to grow and impart a green hue.
Source:
buzzfeed.com
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