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Background matching, disruptive coloration, and differential use of microhabitats in two neotropical grasshoppers with sexual dichromatism [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Cryptic coloration is an adaptative defensive mechanism against predators. Color patterns can become cryptic through background coloration‐matching and disruptive coloration.
VÍCTOR Hugo Ramírez-Delgado +1 more
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Biomimetic chameleon soft robot with artificial crypsis and disruptive coloration skin [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Realizing an artificial camouflage device with a high spatial resolution by adapting to the surrounding environment in real-time is a challenging task, mainly associated with device fabrication and integration with sensor and control circuits.
Hyeonseok Kim +5 more
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Coincident disruptive coloration [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009 Even if an animal matches its surroundings perfectly in colour and texture, any mismatch between the spatial phase of its pattern and that of the background, or shadow created by its three-dimensional relief, is potentially revealing. Nevertheless, for camouflage to be fully broken, the shape must be recognizable.
Aron Székely, Innes Cuthill
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Defining disruptive coloration and distinguishing its functions [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009 Disruptive coloration breaks up the shape and destroys the outline of an object, hindering detection. The principle was first suggested approximately a century ago, but, although research has significantly increased, the field remains conceptually unstructured and no unambiguous definition exists.
Sami Merilaita, Martin Stevens
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Disruptive coloration and binocular disparity: breaking camouflage [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019 Many species employ camouflage to disguise their true shape and avoid detection or recognition. Disruptive coloration is a form of camouflage in which high-contrast patterns obscure internal features or break up an animal's outline. In particular, edge enhancement creates illusory, or ‘fake’ depth edges within the animal's body.
Erich W Graf +2 more
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Background-matching and disruptive coloration, and the evolution of cryptic coloration [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2005 Cryptic prey coloration typically bears a resemblance to the habitat the prey uses. It has been suggested that coloration which visually matches a random sample of the background maximizes background matching. We studied this previously untested hypothesis, as well as another, little studied principle of concealment, disruptive coloration,
Sami Merilaita
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Empirical tests of the role of disruptive coloration in reducing detectability [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007 Disruptive patterning is a potentially universal camouflage technique that is thought to enhance concealment by rendering the detection of body shapes more difficult. In a recent series of field experiments, artificial moths with markings that extended to the edges of their ‘wings’ survived at higher rates than moths with the same edge patterns ...
Alison Callahan, Thomas Sherratt
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Disruptive coloration, crypsis and edge detection in early visual processing [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006 Many animals use concealing markings to reduce the risk of predation. These include background pattern matching (crypsis), where the coloration matches a random sample of the background and disruptive patterns, whose effectiveness has been hypothesized to lie in breaking up the body into a series of apparently unrelated objects.
Martin Stevens, Innes Cuthill
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Crypsis through disruptive coloration in an isopod [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1998 The white–spotted colour morph of the marine isopod Idotea baltica appears cryptic on the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus with its white–coloured epizoites Electra crustulenta and Balanus improvisus . This study shows that the crypsis of this coloration is achieved through disruptive coloration rather than through background matching.
Sami Merilaita
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Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Background matching and disruptive coloration are common camouflage strategies in nature, but few studies have accurately measured their protective value in living organisms.
João Vitor de Alcantara Viana +8 more
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