Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-26 | Page 4 | Many Animals Have Power to Change Colors

Many Animals Animas Have Power PoTer to Change Colors Many I. animals besides the chameleon chameleon chameleon chame chame- leon can change their skin colors to match their surroundings Fish squid garden slugs and even our pur old friend the frog have the thc ability in irs greater I or lesser degree How It Itis is done was recently explained by Professor Earle I B. B Perkins of Rutgers university 5 their Color-changing Color animals have II skin pigments in special cells called These can be contracted contracted contracted con con- when the animal finds itself finds Itself I on on n a light background and allowed I to expand and interlock when it moves to a dark environment The Theold Theold Theold old gag about the thc chameleon that was placed on a Scotch plaid and died died trying to make good has been almost realized in the case cas of the flounder Specimens of ot this flatfish placed in n a pool paved with a black and white checked design actually did make good they mottled their bodies with light and dark spots approximating the thc size of ot the thc checks For a long time it has been known that many animals control their color changes through nervous action This reaches its extreme perhaps in the case of the cuttlefish or squid which S can cause a play of colors to flicker across its body almost like flashes of heat lightning on a summer sky k