Chapter 1870: Does Daigua's Backer

Zhang Song's attention was entirely on Does Daigua at this moment, not noticing Xia Qing's expression, and continued to analyze, "In addition, the eye-catching white color can allow Does Daigua to obtain a higher social status in the monkey pack and gain the favor of mates."

Xia Qing learned the idol's style and asked rigorously, "What is the basis for Song Ge to make this conclusion?"

Zhang Song, who was hanging one arm, was also very excited when encountering professional problems, "Trouble Qing Zhao Jie to take down that book "Primatology" on the third shelf behind you and turn to page 149."

Xia Qing took the book down, flipped it open, and saw close-up photos of two male mandrills. The blue and red colors on their faces and buttocks were bright to the point of being exaggerated.

Zhang Song began to give his judgment basis, "The brighter the color of the male mandrill's face and buttocks, the higher the status, and the more the female likes it. The color itself is a health billboard—maintaining this bright color requires a healthy body and sufficient nutrition. For sick or malnourished individuals, the color will be dull. Qing Zhao Jie, turn 5 pages back."

Xia Qing turned 5 pages back and saw a monkey with distinct black and white fur color, even uglier than Does Daigua.

"The black and white color scheme of the colobus monkey is equally eye-catching in the rainforest canopy. This high-contrast fur color helps group members quickly discover each other in dense branches and leaves and lean toward companions."

After Zhang Song gave two examples, he stared at Does Daigua on the screen with glowing eyes, "The black body and white face color contrast of the male white-faced saki monkey is already eye-catching enough. Does Daigua dyeing its whole body fur white may have three intentions: First, it dares to let itself be seen by all creatures, which is called the handicap principle in animal behavior—I added a burden to myself, but I can still jump around, which shows that I am really strong."

Does Daigua is very strong? Xia Qing was expressionless.

"Second, it is declaring that it is a clean individual with higher social value; third, and most importantly—it magnified its facial color to its whole body, declaring: You don't need to look at the face, look at the whole body and you know it's me. In the social network of the monkey pack, this is a kind of ultimate self-branding."

Xia Qing confirmed, "Self-branding?"

"Yes. Does Daigua uses the eye-catching white color, which is both a social signal showing health and status, and a survival strategy declaring 'I have a backer'. Under the framework of primatology, this is completely established. And its backer..."

Zhang Song looked at Xia Qing and showed an envious smile, "Qing Zhao Jie, Does Daigua's trust in you has surpassed the Bear King, and it has gained extremely high security by staying with you."

Security?

After returning to the territory, Xia Qing sat in the car and watched quietly the little monkey with snow-white fur and pitch-black nose, ears, and claws, who was drying a small color-blocked backpack.

After Does Daigua dried the cleaned backpack, it looked at Xia Qing sitting in the car with a dull big face.

Xia Qing jumped out of the car, closed the car door, carried Sheep Boss down from the passenger seat, walked into the screen door, and asked, "Does Daigua, do you want Xia-style protective clothing like mine? This kind of protective clothing is not only light and breathable, but its defense level has reached the level of wild secondary protective clothing."

Does Daigua's big face was instantly lit up, "Eh!!!"

Xia Qing sat on the chair under the eaves, took out her phone, clicked on the shopping website, found this protective clothing, and showed it to Does Daigua, "Does Daigua, see what color you like, I will purchase fabric and make a set for you."

Sheep Boss jumped onto its special chair beside it, swaying and squinting while chewing.

Does Daigua jumped from the drying rack onto Xia Qing's shoulder and flipped through the pictures of protective clothing on Xia Qing's phone. In order not to let this little monkey be deceived, Xia Qing didn't install a shopping APP on its phone, but it fumbled with its little black claws for a while and knew that sliding left and right would show protective clothing of different colors.

At Zhang Song's request, Xia Qing did color tests for the two melons.

Does Daigua is a dichromat, it cannot distinguish red and green, and the world in its eyes is mainly composed of blue and yellow; Does Ergua is a trichromat, possessing full-color vision like humans.

According to Zhang Song, all male white-faced saki monkeys and nearly half of the females are dichromats, and only less than half of the females are trichromats.

This evolutionary strategy allows the saki monkey group to gain dual benefits in foraging and survival: trichromatic females can find mature red or yellow fruits faster and more accurately, allowing them to gain more energy when raising offspring; dichromatic individuals, although unable to distinguish red and green, are more sensitive to camouflage colors and light and shadow changes, and are better at discovering insects hidden in leaves or detecting lurking natural enemies.

Does Daigua slid with its little black claws for a while and handed the phone to Xia Qing, "Eh..."

Xia Qing understood, "Does Daigua wants a white top and yellow pants?"

"Eh!"

Xia Qing smiled.

In the eyes of a dichromat, yellow is the brightest and most vivid, just like glowing; white is also bright and highly reflective, with a very strong contrast with the dark background.

When Xia Qing asked for Zhang Song's opinion, these were the two colors he recommended to her. The basis is that Does Daigua has no worries about being hunted when staying with Xia Qing, and its main demand at this stage is to be more eye-catching.

"Okay, I will buy this kind of fabric for Does Daigua and make two sets of Xia-style protective clothing that fit your body shape according to your body shape, so Does Daigua can change and wear them."

"Eh..."

"Does Daigua doesn't want two sets of the same color? Then for the second set of protective clothing, what color does Does Daigua want?"

Does Daigua took Xia Qing's phone again and quickly chose a blue top and white pants.

Blue is the third color Zhang Song told Xia Qing that Does Daigua might choose, because in the eyes of this little guy, blue has a strong contrast with yellow, gray, and white, and it is also an eye-catching color. Xia Qing agreed, "Okay, the second set will have a blue top and white pants. These two sets of clothes are work clothes, purchased for Does Daigua at my expense. Because Does Daigua is the most excellent and responsible technical monkey in our territory, it should receive such a reward."

"Eh ah ya!" Does Daigua jumped up and gestured on its snow-white little head with its little black claws.

Xia Qing nodded again, "If Does Daigua can go to the mountain crack on Mountain 62 with me tomorrow and successfully install cameras and protective nets next to the location where the crystal orchids grow, I will buy Does Daigua three little hats, white, yellow, and blue, one of each color."

The reason why Xia Qing spent so much money is because Does Daigua is the main labor force for cultivating evolutionary crystal orchids, and she must mobilize the enthusiasm of this little guy.

Originally, she wanted to ask the idol to prepare a skin dye for Does Daigua, the kind that could dye its black nose, black ears, and black claws white. But the idol blew up as soon as he heard it and directly shooed Xia Qing out. So Xia Qing could only settle for the next best thing and add new equipment for Does Daigua.

Why is equipment secondary? That is of course because the cost-effectiveness of equipment is not as high as skin dye.

Why not use honey? Because Territory 3's honey is not enough to eat.

"Eh!!!" Does Daigua immediately straightened its waist very reliably, indicating that it could definitely complete the task successfully. ===== CHAPTER 1871 =====