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Crypsis and masquerade

Journal of Biological Education, 1985
A ‘signaller’ (for example, a prey) can avoid detection by a ‘receiver’ (for example, a predator) if its visual signals are difficult to separate from the background. There are two ways by which signallers match the coloration of their background— ‘crypsis’ and ‘masquerade’.
J. A. Allen, J. M. Cooper
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Chemical crypsis in predatory ants

Experientia, 1979
The repellent responses of worker termites to ants are determined by the exocrine gland secretions of the latter. Specialized termite predators produce non-repellent aliphatic alcohols as the major components of their mandibular glands, whereas unspecialized con-generics usually produce repellent ketones and aldehydes.
C. Longhurst, R. Baker, P. E. Howse
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Crypsis schoenoides Lam.

2007
Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), pp. 718-782 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 738, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
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Propaganda, Crypsis, and Slave-making

1995
In complex ecological communities, the ability to survive and reproduce is often tenuous at best. Many organisms do so by simply “bullying” their way through life, but for many others a more furtive approach is necessary. These latter animals resort to either blending into their environment, or to mimicking specific species-characteristic cues of other,
Ralph W. Howard, Roger D. Akre
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The interrelationship between crypsis and colour polymorphism

Ecology Letters, 2011
The mechanisms behind the evolution and maintenance of conspicuous visible polymorphisms comprising tens of morphs present a challenge to evolutionary theory. However, for cryptic forms Endler (Evol. Biol., 11, 1978, 319) conjectured that complex backgrounds facilitate polymorphism because in such habitats there are several ways to resemble the resting
Daniel W. Franks, Geoff S. Oxford
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Mimicry and crypsis - a behavioural approach to classification

Behavioural Processes, 1986
Mimetic strategies are characterized by interference in information processes, whereby certain signalreceivers are deceived by a mimic. The function of mimetic behaviour as well as of other behavioural patterns which have evolved is to satisfy the needs of the environment.
H, Zabka, G, Tembrock
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6. Mimicry, crypsis, and blatant advertising

2022
‘Mimicry, crypsis, and blatant advertising’ discusses insects as food for many animals, including other insects. Their main routes to avoiding being eaten are to hide, by camouflaging themselves so that they merge into the background or pretending to be something dangerous or poisonous, or to run or fly away.
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Frequency-dependent predation, crypsis and aposematic coloration

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 1988
Frequency-dependent predation may maintain or prevent colour pattern polymorphisms in prey, and can be caused by a variety of biological phenomena, including perceptual processes (search images), optimal foraging and learning. Most species are preyed upon by more than one predator species, which are likely to differ in foraging styles, perceptual and ...
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The Genus Crypsis (Gramineae) in the United States

Systematic Botany, 1979
The Old World grass genus, Crypsis, is represented in the United States by three naturalized taxa. Although these are usually treated as specifically distinct in America, European botanists consider two of them to be merely different growth forms of the same species. The few chromosome counts in the literature suggest x = 9 as the basic number.
Barry E. Hammel, John R. Reeder
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Crypsis bimaculatus Kaszab 1946

2019
Published as part of Hegde, V. D., 2019, Checklist of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arunachal Pradesh, India, pp. 69-77 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i1/2019/119498, http://zenodo.org/record ...
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