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To Be Seen or to Hide: Visual Characteristics of Body Patterns for Camouflage and Communication in the Australian Giant Cuttlefish Sepia apama

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract AbstractIt might seem obvious that a camouflaged animal must generally match its background whereas to be conspicuous an organism must differ ...
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Cuttlefish camouflage may be more complex than previously thought

A new study suggests that the European cuttlefish may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific visual features from its local environment, and visual cues relating to ...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Scientists Unraveling The Mystery Of Camouflage

Marine biologists have discovered three broad classes of camouflage body patterns. This study of cephalopod camouflage has implications for analyzing camouflage tactics throughout the animal kingdom.
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Ecological Patterns of Body-Size and Clutch-Size Variation in the Parthenogenetic Teiid Lizard Cnemidophorus tesselatus

Pattern class C of parthenogenetic Cnemidophorus tesselatus reaches its southern range limit at Sumner Lake State Park, De Baca County, New Mexico, where it is syntopic at several sites with a ...
The Conversation

Motion dazzle: spotting the patterns that help animals outsmart predators on the run

Laura Kelley receives funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013). Many animals use the colours and patterns on their ...