Concealing Coloration in Animals

Informationen zum Autor Judy Diamond is Professor and Curator at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Alan B. Bond is Research Professor of Biological Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for Avian Cognition at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Klappentext 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 work in the evolution of concealing coloration. Zusammenfassung 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 work in the evolution of concealing coloration.

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• Authors: Alan B Bond, Alan B. Bond, Bond Alan B., Judy Diamond, Judy Bond Diamond, Diamond Judy
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674052352
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05235-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; NATURE / Animals / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Zoology & animal sciences, Wildlife: general interest