When the Cover Burns: Behavioral and Morphological Responses of Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) to Increased Openness in Post‐Fire Environments [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionWildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity due to human activity, yet the behavioral and morphological responses of animals to post‐fire stressors remain poorly understood.
Elmer E. Gutierrez, Breanna J. Putman
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Adaptations to sound production behaviour can reduce the detectability of animal signals by eavesdroppers in a phenomenon known as acoustic crypsis.
Julia M Zeh +2 more
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Assessing the Impact of Environment on the Color of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) in the Wild [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAnimal coloration is a complex phenotype that may be affected by genetics, evolution, ecology, and environment. Disentangling the impact of environment on phenotype can often be done in laboratory studies, but the results do not necessarily correspond to
Georgina Jaimes +2 more
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Coloration in a Praying Mantis: Color Change, Sexual Color Dimorphism, and Possible Camouflage Strategies [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBackground matching, an important form of camouflage, can be challenging for animals that range across heterogeneously colored habitats. To remain cryptic in such habitats, animals may employ color change, background choice, or generalist coloration, and
Leah Y. Rosenheim +2 more
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Ultrasound and ultraviolet: crypsis in gliding mammals [PDF]
PeerJGliding is only present in six extant groups of mammals—interestingly, despite divergent evolutionary histories, all mammalian gliders are strictly nocturnal.
Sasha L. Newar +3 more
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Common cuckoo females remove more conspicuous eggs during parasitism [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Avian obligate brood parasites gain an advantage by removing the eggs of the cuckoos who have already visited the nest, which can increase the chances of survival for their offspring.
Longwu Wang +3 more
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Role of body size and shape in animal camouflage [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAnimal camouflage serves a dual purpose in that it enhances both predation efficiency and anti‐predation strategies, such as background matching, disruptive coloration, countershading, and masquerade, for predators and prey, respectively.
Hongmin Yu, Zhixue Lin, Fanrong Xiao
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Corn Snakes Can Behaviorally Enhance Crypsis by Choosing Complex Backgrounds and Substrate [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020 Many organisms have evolved coloration that increases their likelihood of survival. Crypsis is one such mechanism employed by many animals to avoid detection by blending into their habitat.
Lindsay Kravchuk , Charles M. Watson
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Rapid Shifts in Visible Carolina Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina) Coloration During Flights
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Some brightly colored structures are only visible when organisms are moving, such as parts of wings that are only visible in flight. For example, the primarily brown Carolina grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina) has contrasting black-and-cream hindwings ...
Ezekiel Martin +4 more
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Camouflage effects of various colour-marking morphs against different microhabitat backgrounds in a polymorphic pygmy grasshopper Tetrix japonica. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Colour-marking polymorphism is widely distributed among cryptic species. To account for the adaptive significance of such polymorphisms, several hypotheses have been proposed to date.
Kaori Tsurui +2 more
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