Brown in Nature
Mammals
- The brown rat or Norwegian rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the best known and most common rats.
- The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America.
Biology
- The solid waste excreted by human beings and many other animals is characteristically brown in color due to the presence of bilirubin, a by-product of destruction of red blood cells.
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