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 ...

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.

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 ...

Since Aristotle, humans have pondered how body patterns form. Almost invariably, each person has the same skeletomuscular arrangements. Some bodily structures, such as vertebra and ribs, seem to come ...

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 ...

New research from the Durham University Biosciences Department and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has revealed that many migratory birds are finding it harder to prepare for their long ...

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 ...