Why are there no green mammals?

Question

There are green reptiles, birds and amphibians.Why then is there no green mammmals when it would clearly be advantageous in some instances.

Answer 1

There is a much better (longer) answer at the site below but the short form is this: evolutionary wise, the species that spent the most time near water (where the color green is) were the species that developed green hides or skins -- for example, iguanas, birds. Mammals, by nature, are carnivorous and moved inland and since they move more (compare a human to an iguana), camoflauge would be wasted on us, as any predator with depth perception could spot us even if we were the same color as the background.

Answer 2

Both a plant and a animal have cells .cells are the most basic unit of living things only plant cells contain chloroplast chloplast is cells in a plant that contain chllorophyll chllorophyll is a green chemical that gives a plant its green color.amimal cells inside a animal dolt have chlorophyll meaning that there is no chlorophyll to make a mammal green



IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN?

Answer 3

actually, sloths grow an algae in their fur, and thus are often green.



http://www.sloth.com/

for a pic: try here.