Picky eater????

[Vypyrz]

I had a massive normal female years ago, back when I didn't know what I was doing, and she only ate high white prey. Solid white, or mostly white with some colored splotches. She would not touch a solid grey, brown, or black prey item.

Gale

Mine does the same thing. He will take solid, or mostly white prey, but he won't touch solid, or mostly colored prey. Yet, if I leave the colored prey in front of his hide and darken the room, usually within an hour or so, he will eat it, which leads me to two possible theories:

1) The color of the preys fur somehow affects the heat signature, much like the way light colored clothing and paint will reflect light and heat, whereas dark colored clothing and paint will absorb it.

Or

2) They have way better eyesight and color differentiation than we give them credit for. This could possibly explain why he will eat a colored prey in the dark, because at that point, he is relying on smell more than sight and can't see what the color of the prey is.

I wish I knew...