...Min Tan; Jeremiah Y. O. Chan; Long Yu; Eunice J. Tan; Daiqin Li Motion and camouflage were previously considered to be mutually exclusive, as sudden movements can be easily detected. Background matching, for instance, is a well-known, effective camouflage strategy where the color and pattern...

... be appealing to predators and therefore constitute an evolutionary disadvantage. Animals often employ absorption and scattering in order to reduce the directionality of the reflected light and thereby enhance their camouflage. Here, we investigated the monkey beetle Hoplia argentea using microspectrophotometry...

...Laura E. Bagge; Stephen T. Kinsey; Justin Gladman; Sönke Johnsen ABSTRACT Whole-body transparency, an effective camouflage strategy in many aquatic species, can be disrupted by environmental and/or physiological stressors. We found that tail-flip escape responses temporarily disrupt...

...Viviana Cadena; Kathleen R. Smith; John A. Endler; Devi Stuart-Fox ABSTRACT Animals may improve camouflage by both dynamic colour change and local evolutionary adaptation of colour but we have little understanding of their relative importance in colour-changing species. We tested for differences...

... are most strongly reflected in stomatopod larval eyeshine, suggesting a putative spectral matching to the light environment against which the larval eyes are viewed. We tested the efficacy of stomatopod crustacean larval eyeshine as an ocular camouflaging mechanism by photographing larvae in their natural...

... morphological colour change phenotypic plasticity camouflage background matching Animals such as reptiles, amphibians, fish and cephalopods can change their body colour for functions such as photoprotection, thermoregulation, social signalling and predator avoidance (reviewed in Sugimoto, 2002...

... chromatophores do not grow at all after they are inserted in the dermis. * Author for correspondence ( tublitz@uoneuro.uoregon.edu ) 1 6 2011 © 2011. 2011 Sepia officinalis cephalopod body patterning camouflage chromatophore cuttlefish Camouflage plays a key role...

...Ashwin Bhandiwad; Sönke Johnsen SUMMARY Transparency is an effective form of camouflage, but it must be present throughout the entire volume of an animal to succeed. Certain environmental stressors may cause physiological responses that increase internal light scattering, making tissue less...

...Lydia M. Mäthger; Nadav Shashar; Roger T. Hanlon SUMMARY Cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopus) are probably best known for their ability to change color and pattern for camouflage and communication. This is made possible by their complex skin, which contains pigmented chromatophore organs...

...Eunice J. Tan; Daiqin Li SUMMARY Many species of the orb-web spider genus Cyclosa often adorn their webs with decorations of prey remains, egg sacs and/or plant detritus, termed`detritus decorations'. These detritus decorations have been hypothesised to camouflage the spider from predators or prey...

...Emma J. Kelman; Daniel Osorio; Roland J. Baddeley SUMMARY Cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia produce adaptive camouflage by regulating the expression of visual features such as spots and lines, and textures including stipples and stripes. They produce the appropriate pattern for a given environment...

...Lydia M. Mäthger; Chuan-Chin Chiao; Alexandra Barbosa; Kendra C. Buresch; Sarrah Kaye; Roger T. Hanlon SUMMARY Cephalopods are known for their ability to change camouflage body patterns in response to changes in the visual background. Recent research has used artificial substrates...

...Alexandra Barbosa; Lydia M. Mäthger; Charles Chubb; Christopher Florio; Chuan-Chin Chiao; Roger T. Hanlon Among the changeable camouflage patterns of cuttlefish, disruptive patterning is shown in response to certain features of light objects in the visual background. However, whether animals show...

... by A. aculeatus and other octopuses are discussed. e-mail: chuffard@berkeley.edu 10 7 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 hydrostatic multi-legged bipedal camouflage velocity mimicry Unlike other examples of multi-limbed hydrostats such as caterpillars( Mezoff...

...Emma J. Kelman; Palap Tiptus; Daniel Osorio SUMMARY Plaice ( Pleuronectes platessa ) is a flatfish well-known for the ability to vary its body pattern, probably for camouflage. This study investigates the repertoire of patterns used by juvenile plaice, by describing how they respond to shifts...

... for correspondence (e-mail: reneer@nioz.nl ) 6 9 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 uropygial gland preen wax camouflage olfaction nest predation sandpiper Calidris canutus The application of secretions of the uropygial gland, also called preen waxes...

... of disruptive skin patterns in young cuttlefish. Movies available on-line ‡e-mail: rhanlon@mbl.edu 29 3 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 camouflage visual perception sensory colour patterns disruptive coloration cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis. Cephalopod...

... of Biologists Limited 1998 multilayer reflector structural colour light camouflage conspicuous beetle Calloodes grayanus Anoplognathus parvulus Structural colours in animals are produced by the interaction of light waves with features having the same order of size as the wavelength...

... Limited 1994 statocyst sensory input chromatophores countershading camouflage cephalopod cuttlefish Sepia officinalis Many animals, including cephalopods, conceal themselves from predators and prey by countershading: the upper surface is dark while the lower one is light. This has...

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