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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but if Shran was specific enough to call Archer pink-skin he'd hit Sisko with probably brown.

Of course if he said mocha-skin he'd Shran would still probably get punched

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Generally, animals are much better at telling between members of their own species than members of other species. So, it may be that human brains are more hardwired to see more distinct colors in the range that comprises human skin.

What I'm saying is that it wouldn't be shocking if Andorians didn't notice that much of a difference between the skin colors of Archer and The Sisko, and conversely, they may have different names for shades of blue in their skin that are strikingly obvious to them, but not to humans.

So, it might actually be that an Andorian would consider them both pink skins. Which might not make things better, though.

[–] coolie4@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

3 pink-skin pigs.

Source: I'm human

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

Behold, a man!

Quite Diogenes in your refutal.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

When you look at that picture, you can obviously only see what a human can see. In fact, photographs and monitors are made for human eyes seeing things as a human would see them. A pig looking at this picture on my monitor might understand the image but think the colors are slightly off.

If a pig saw these three pigs together in person, they might tell them apart for different reasons than you, a human would.

And these are domesticated pigs, bred to look the way that a human wants them to look. Easy for humans to tell different breeds apart.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Generally, animals are much better at telling between members of their own species than members of other species.

I feel like this is an inherently unprovable claim given that we haven't met any aliens that can corroborate.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

We see it with a lot of animals. E.g. penguins can quite easily pick out known penguins from a group. Meanwhile, the average human wouldn't be able to tell you much more than "it's a penguin".

With humans it's (at least partially) a learnt skill. Farmers can tell cows etc apart easily. I would struggle. We even run into it within our own species. E.g. I struggle differentiating people of races I don't see as often. It can be very annoying at times. I'm also definitely not the only one.