Autumn's inventory of the colours of the animal world seems perfect. The 10 species of animals listed in this article feature the "orange card," a color that often acts as a warning sign.
1. Japanese spider crab
Japanese spider crab
The lifespan of the Japanese spider crab can reach 100 years
Orange hairy spiders are only 6 inches long, and the fully developed Japanese spider crab is definitely a giant beast compared to them. This crab is so large that it can ride a small car as a horse. Japanese spider crabs live in the deep sea, spend their entire lives in the deep sea, and can live up to 100 years. This crab lives in the waters of Japan and is the largest arthropod in the world. In 1921, the largest Japanese spider crab ever found was captured, weighing 41 pounds (about 18.6 kilograms) and reaching an arm span of 19 feet (about 5.8 meters).
2. Orange hairy spider
Orange hairy spider
This spider likes to fight in character, giving the impression of being unruly and unfriendly
The orange hairy spider, whose scientific name is "Pterinochilus murinus", has become a favorite of many pet lovers because of its bright orange color. This spider can reach a length of 6 inches (about 15 centimeters), and has a temperamental tendency to fight, giving the impression of being unruly and unfriendly. Feeding orange hairy spiders as pets requires extra care, and if you take a bite from them, you will fall into severe pain. Perhaps the "orange bulldog spider" is a more appropriate name. This spider lives in sub-Saharan Africa and is also figuratively known as the "biting orange guy".
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3. The Great Poison Lizard
The Great Poison Lizard
The large poison lizard is mainly orange and black, and the pattern is very bold
The large poisonous lizard, which is mainly orange and black, has a very bold pattern and is one of only two poisonous lizards in the United States. Like bees and wasps, their body color is a warning to other animals that "better stay away from me." Native to the Mojave Desert and surrounding areas, the lizard can reach about 2 feet (about 60 centimeters) in length, and is far smaller than the behemoths that humans enjoyed as flies in the 1959 film Giant Poison Lizard.
If you are unfortunate enough to be bitten by a large poisonous lizard, you will always remember this terrible experience and stay away the next time you encounter it. This is not because the bite experiences abnormal pain and near-death, but because the toxins of the large poisonous lizard enhance memory. Interestingly, their toxins can also relieve diabetes symptoms. At present, scientists have artificially synthesized the great poisonous lizard toxin.
4. Moving crown umbrella bird
Moving-crowned umbrella bird
There are two populations of the packeye, the Andean umbilical umbels with the scientific name "Rupicola Peruvianus" and the Guyanaian Umerophora, the scientific name "Rupicola Rupicola", the former being the national bird of Peru. Regardless of the population, only males have bright orange feathers. The coroned umbrella bird inhabits the rocky regions of western South America, where the Amazon rainforest is beginning to give way to the foothills of the Andes. Males use dazzling colors and fan-shaped crowns to attract potential mates, while females have light brown feathers that are unattractive.
5. Clownfish
Clownfish
Clownfish have attracted the attention of scientists for their excellent survival skills
There are a large number of orange fish living in the ocean, but who is the most famous is the clownfish, thanks to the 2003 Hollywood animated film "Finding Nemo". With the release and popularity of this film, the otherwise unobtrusive clownfish has occupied a place in the minds of an entire generation of children. The introduction of the Harry Potter series made the owl a pet chased by children, and Finding Nemo made the clownfish the darling of the pet market.
Prior to Finding Nemo, clownfish also attracted the attention of scientists for their excellent survival skills. They are immune to anemone toxins and are able to hide between the poisonous tentacles of this marine invertebrate. Photographing clownfish hidden in the tentacles of anemones is an interest for many wildlife photographers.
6. Erythematous water lizard
Erythematous water lizard
Although the name bears the word "lizard", the red-spotted water lizard is a member of the salamander family. This amphibian, with a bright orange body and red spots, lives in the humid eastern forests of the Americas as a child and returns to the water as an adult. This animal is born in the water, the pups breathe with gills, and return to the water after adulthood, and the lifespan can reach 15 years.
The erythraformed water lizard is often mistaken for a small lizard, and this mistake is forgivable because their appearance does resemble that of a small lizard. The last photograph shows an orange lizard living in a rainforest area. As a rainforest animal, why did it evolve an orange color that was very different from the surrounding green vegetation? This sleepy-eyed little guy must have known the answer, but it couldn't tell us.
7. Julia Butterfly
Julia Butterfly
If you've ever seen a black-veined golden-spotted butterfly, you'll be amazed by their brilliant colors. This noble butterfly also has large shades of orange, while there are striking black veins on its wings. Julia's butterfly, scientific name "Dryas iulia", has an orange color for most of the body, and only a very small part is occupied by black, creating a sharp color contrast.
Julia butterfly is fast-flying, prefers to come out during the day, and lives in the Western Hemisphere from northern Brazil to the southern United States. The butterfly has a wingspan of an average of 3.5 inches (about 87 millimeters). The warm orange color makes them darlings in butterfly greenhouses. Julia butterflies "tickle" the eyes of tropical caimans, which is why they are famous in the butterfly world. The so-called "tickle" is actually to make the crocodile shed tears and then enjoy this free "drink".
8. Orange starfish
Orange starfish
Starfish are so colorful that they will make the list in almost any animal color competition. The richness of this animal's color is astonishing, with bold and intense scarlets in addition to orange, overshadowing the setting sun. Starfish usually live in shallow waters, and even in areas only a few meters from the surface, their color will fade, and the bright color of starfish may be to compensate for this effect.
9. Orangutans
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Orangutans are the orange apes of the Planet. The orange English name is "orange" and the English name of the orangutan is "orangutan", but there is no connection between the two, but a coincidence. The name "orangutan" derives from the Mayan word for "orang" and "utan", the former meaning "man" and the latter meaning "forest". The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources lists orangutans as endangered, and the current population is only 14% of what it was 10,000 years ago. Human activity and habitat loss are major threats to orangutans, and the illegal trade in hunting pups and then selling them as pets further increases the pressure to survive.
Several large and many small rescue centers are actively helping rescued orangutans to return to the wild. These centers also deepen our understanding of this primate. At the rescue center, the researchers observed some very striking behaviors of orangutans, such as using tools and fishing with wooden sticks as long spears.
There are three main body colors of tigers, namely black, white and orange. Orange, the dominant color, makes the tiger even more special among the 4 species of big cats. Like bumblebees and large poisonous lizards, tiger orange is a "warning sign," but the greater role is to blend in with the forest and grassland environment, using this camouflage for hunting.
Like many orange animals, tigers are under great threat to their survival and are now listed as critically endangered. Three of the six tiger subspecies have gone extinct, and their habitat area has shrunk sharply to just 7 percent of what it used to be. It is estimated that there are only 3,000 to 5,000 tigers in the wild, and thousands of others live in zoos or are kept in private captivity. (Qiuling)