Nobody painted these glowing pink springhares—their Day-Glo is all natural.

🔴 Glowing lights in nature aren’t limited to fireflies and glowworms. A new study published in Nature last month discovered vivid pink biofluorescence in two different species of springhares, both found on the African continent.

🔴 Biofluorescence generally describes the process during which particles in an organism’s tissues absorb short-wavelength, high-energy light, and after keeping some of that energy for itself, shoots the wave back out at a lower energy and thus a longer wavelength. Short wavelengths like UV and blue light go in, then are emitted as longer wavelengths of red, orange, yellow, and green light.

🔴 This colorful light show has been observed in fireflies, fish, reptiles, amphibians and birds. Three groups of nocturnal mammals—New World flying squirrels, New World marsupial opossums, and the monotreme duck-billed platypus—have also displayed biofluorescence in previous studies.
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