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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Camouflage is a common trait enabling animals to avoid detection by predators and prey. Patterns such as spots and stripes are convergent across carnivore families, including felids, and are hypothesized to have adaptive value through camouflage.
Shahar Dubiner +3 more
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Olfactory crypsis and visual attraction in a crab spider
, 2023 There may be an intense interaction or even an arms race between the crypsis skills of sedentary predators and the detection abilities of prey. We explored the issue using a common crab spider and housefly as the predator and prey, respectively.
Li, Z (via Mendeley Data), Li, Zichang
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Data from: Cognition contra camouflage: how the brain mediates predator-driven crypsis evolution
, 2022 Study abstract: While crypsis is a prominent antipredator adaptation, the role of the brain in predator-driven evolution remains controversial. Resolving this controversy requires contextualizing the brain with established antipredator traits and ...
Ying Jiang (12961967) +7 more
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Lateralisation of eye use in learning crypsis-breaking skin-pattern responses in Sepia officinalis
, 2023 Investigating whether visual lateralisation in Sepia officinalis is accompanied by asymmetries in skin-pattern learning in the context of learnt crypsis-breaking skin-pattern ...
Nathaniel Wright
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Crypsis via leg clustering: twig masquerading in a spider [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 The role of background matching in camouflage has been extensively studied. However, contour modification has received far less attention, especially in twig-mimicking species.
Shichang Zhang +7 more
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Changeable camouflage: how well can flounder resemble the colour and spatial scale of substrates in their natural habitats? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Flounder change colour and pattern for camouflage. We used a spectrometer to measure reflectance spectra and a digital camera to capture body patterns of two flounder species camouflaged on four natural backgrounds of different spatial scale (sand, small
Derya Akkaynak +3 more
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Exploring Crypsis in Dolomedes [PDF]
, 2022 Cryptic coloration and background matching are highly effective for some riparian spiders’ camouflage against detection by the human eye. Fishing spiders (genus Dolomedes, family Pisauridae), which are known to be cryptids, present anecdotal evidence of ...
Nichols, Joshua
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Ecosphere, 2022 Although consumptive effects of predators have long been central to ecology, predation‐risk effects have emerged as major components of predator–prey interactions. Both consumptive and predation‐risk effects should vary with predator functional traits (e.
Jason R. Bohenek +3 more
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A hypothesis to explain accuracy of wasp resemblances
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 Mimicry is one of the oldest concepts in biology, but it still presents many puzzles and continues to be widely debated. Simulation of wasps with a yellow‐black abdominal pattern by other insects (commonly called “wasp mimicry”) is traditionally ...
Michael Boppré +2 more
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Post-attack aposematic display in prey facilitates predator avoidance learning
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Warning signals protect unpalatable prey from predation because predators who learn the association between the warning signal and prey unprofitability decrease attacks on the prey.
Changku eKang +6 more
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