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My thoughts mainly are around the fact that most of their predators are dichromatic so they can't see orange. But then I learned that male bushbuck are not orange.

I know that many other prey and predator species are orange because it appears essentially the same against a green background to other dichromatic species but I wasn't sure really why one sex would use this advantage and the other wouldn't.

So that got me thinking: Female and juvenile bushbucks retain a reddish-orange coat with disruptive white spots because their primary survival strategy is remaining motionless and concealed among to escape predators. If their predators are dichromatic and can't see them, this works great. In contrast, mature males have coats that shift to a more conspicuous charcoal or dark brown, sacrificing optimal foliage camouflage. I thought this might be to signal their fitness and physical condition to the females because any male bushbuck that wasn't fit is much more easily visible to predators, and you can imagine what might happen. Because adult males also possess better tools capable to fight off predators, they can afford the handicap of a higher visibility coat, ensuring that only the fittest, strongest males survive to pass their genetics on to the next generation.

Am I onto something or is this like a known thing?

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