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Incubating parents serve as visual cues to predators in Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus).

PLoS ONE, 2020
Ground-nesting birds face many challenges to reproduce successfully, with nest predation being the main cause of reproductive failure. Visual predators such as corvids and egg-eating raptors, are among the most common causes of nest failure; thus ...
Noémie Engel, Zsolt Végvári, Romy Rice, Vojtěch Kubelka, Tamás Székely   +4 more
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Biomimetic chameleon soft robot with artificial crypsis and disruptive coloration skin [PDF]

, 2021
Hyeonseok Kim, Joonhwa Choi, Kyun Kyu Kim, Phillip Won, Sukjoon Hong, Seung Hwan Ko   +5 more
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Behaviour of Robsonella fontaniana in response to a potential predator Conducta de Robsonella fontaniana frente a un depredador potencial

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2012
Cephalopods have two main defence strategies: the first consists on reducing the odds of being detected by a predator, while the second focuses on avoiding capture.
Juan Francisco Ruiz, Roger D Sepúlveda, Christian M Ibáñez   +2 more
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Crypsis in Montaigne's Essays

, 2012
« A sauts et à gambades » : de cette formule des Essais, la critique a souvent conclu au décousu de leur écriture. Notre travail montre qu'il n'en est rien dans de nombreux chapitres des Essais, en s'appuyant sur l'idée de « cryptique » chez Ramus (Dialectique, 1555) et Canaye (L'Organe, 1589) et sur le concept rhétorique de ductus ou progression du ...
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Genetic and behavioural factors affecting interpopulation colour pattern variation in two congeneric chameleon species

Royal Society Open Science
We conducted a study on interpopulation variation of colour patterns in two congeneric chameleon species, which have an analogous life history. Both species are able to rapidly change colour pattern, and their context-dependent colour patterns often vary
Tammy Keren-Rotem, Devon C. Main, Adi Barocas, David Donaire-Barroso, Michal Haddas-Sasson, Carles Vila, Tal Shaharabany, Lior Wolf, Krystal A. Tolley, Eli Geffen   +9 more
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The Plastic Larval Body Color of the Pale Grass Blue Butterfly Zizeeria maha (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in Response to the Host Plant Color: The Maternal Effect on Crypsis [PDF]

, 2023
Ai Yoshida, Shintaro Yabu, Joji M. Otaki
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Mixed-phenotype grouping: the interaction between oddity and crypsis

Oecologia, 2012
Aggregations of different-looking animals are frequently seen in nature, despite well-documented selection pressures on individuals to maintain phenotypically homogenous groups. Two well-known theories, the 'confusion effect' (reduced ability of a predator to accurately target an individual in a group) and the 'oddity effect' (preferential targeting of
Morrell, Lesley J., Rodgers, Gwendolen M., Kimbell, Helen   +2 more
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Selection for social signalling drives the evolution of chameleon colour change.

PLoS Biology, 2008
Rapid colour change is a remarkable natural phenomenon that has evolved in several vertebrate and invertebrate lineages. The two principal explanations for the evolution of this adaptive strategy are (1) natural selection for crypsis (camouflage) against
Devi Stuart-Fox, Adnan Moussalli
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Gloger's Rule or Historical Conjecture? Tests in Mammals

Ecology and Evolution
Gloger's rule states that homeotherms are darker at lower latitudes; however, a number of 19th‐century naturalists also suggested that animals are more brightly coloured in the tropics than in temperate regions. Using phylogenetic comparative methods, we
Natasha Howell, Tim Caro
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Predation and Crypsis in the Evolution of Electric Signaling in Weakly Electric Fishes [PDF]

, 2019
Philip K. Stoddard, Alex Tran, Rüdiger Krahe   +2 more
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