Optimizing countershading camouflage
Optimizing countershading camouflage
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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Countershading, the widespread tendency of animals to be darker on the side that receives strongest illumination, has classically been explained as an adaptation for camouflage: obliterating cues to 3D shape and enhancing background matching. However, there have only been two quantitative tests of whether the patterns observed in different species...
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Optimizing countershading camouflage
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5135326
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5135326
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1611589113
