Concealing coloration in animals /
Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But it can also conceal animals from detection. It is an adaptation to the visual features of the environment but also to the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of other organisms. Judy Diamond and Alan Bond reveal factors at wo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Concealment. Disappearing acts
- Mistaken identity
- Pepper & smoke
- Obscured by patterns
- Perception. Colors in the mind
- Beholder's eye
- Isolation. Desert islands
- Flowing genes
- Detection. Telltale signs
- Psychology of search
- Distinctively different
- Limits to invisibility
- Guide to common and scientific names.