National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos 30860044,31472013,and 31772453).D.S.M.S was supported by Coordenaqao de Aperfeiqoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior.
Camouflage is widespread throughout the animal kingdom allowing individuals to avoid detection and hence save time and energy rather than escape from an approaching predator.Thus,camouflage is likely to have co-evolve...
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Optical camouflage is a magical capability of animals as first noticed in 1794 by Erasmus Darwin in Zoonomia,but current biomimetic camouflage strategies cannot be readily applied in complex environments involving mul...
Batesian mimicry is the process in which harmless species adopt the appearance of a dangerous, aposematic species.In some prey species,both Batesian mimetic and non-Batesian morphs coexist,presupposing that both morph...
Camouflage is ubiquitous in the natural world and benefits both predators and prey. Amongst the range of conceal- ment strategies, disruptive coloration is thought to visually fragment an animal's' outline, thereby ...
Interactions between disruptive colouration and the match between prey and background spot size were manipulated in two experiments that used time taken by human 'predators' to find artificial prey (virtual crab mo...
Although background matching is a common form of camouflage across a wide diversity of animals, there has been surprisingly little experimental work testing the fitness consequences of this camouflage strategy, especi...
Aggressive mimicry occurs when an organism resembles some aspect of another organism (the model) in order to obtain prey through its deceptive resemblance. This may function either through the overt response of the ...
supported by an Australian Research Council Australian Research Fellowship
The strategies used by parasitic cuckoos to fool their hosts have intrigued naturalists and ornithologists for centuries. Here I review some of the tricks used by Australian parasitic cuckoos to increase host nest ava...
The round-tailed homed lizard Phrynosoma modestum is cryptically colored and resembles a small stone when it draws legs close to its body and elevates its back. We investigated effectiveness of camouflage in P. modest...
Herbivory with crypsis is not well documented in ferns. The present record of cryptic coloration of coccid Saissetia filicum Boisduval (Homoptera: Coccidae) to the sori of a fern species Asplenium nidus L. (Asplen...