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Informationen zum Autor Donald L.J. Quicke retired in 2013 to live in Thailand where he is a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University. Hestudied zoology at Oxford University where he became especially interested in mimicry. In 1976 he travelled to Kenya to experience tropical biodiversity and more of the diversity of life and his work there on insect coloration fertilised his interests as well as on parasitoid wasps, another of his many passions. From then on he kept abreast of the increasingly experimental and theoretical developments in the field even though his academic research took him in diverse other directions. Having now retired he has been able devote his time, in addition to bird watching and butterfly photography, to synthesising and extending his interest in this topic. Mimicry, Crypsis, Masquerade and other Adaptive Resemblances is the result of this work. Klappentext Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance* Full colour* Covers everything from classic examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human behavioural and microbial molecular deceptions* Highlights areas where additonal work or specific exeprimentation could be fruitful* Includes, animals, plants, micro-organisms and humans Zusammenfassung Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance* Full colour* Covers everything from classic examples of Batesian! Mullerian! aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human behavioural and microbial molecular deceptions* Highlights areas where additonal work or specific exeprimentation could be fruitful* Includes! animals! plants! micro-organisms and humans Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, xiii A comment on statistics, xv A comment on scientific names, xvi Acknowledgements, xvii 1 INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MIMICRY SYSTEMS, 1 A brief history, 2 On definitions of 'mimicry' and adaptive resemblance, 3 The concept of 'adaptive resemblance', 8 The classification of mimicry systems, 9 Wickler's system, 9 Vane¿Wright's system, 10 Georges Pasteur (1930-2015), 11 Other approaches, 13 Endler, 13 Zabka & Tembrock, 13 Maran, 14 Mimicry as demonstration of evolution, 14 2 CAMOUFLAGE: CRYPSIS AND DISRUPTIVE COLOURATION IN ANIMALS, 19 Introduction, 20 Distinguishing crypsis from masquerade, 20 Crypsis examples, 24 Countershading, 24 Experimental tests of concealment by countershading, 27 Bioluminescent counter¿illumination, 28 Background matching, 29 Visual sensitivity of predators, 30 To make a perfect match or compromise, 31 Colour polymorphism, 32 Seasonal colour polymorphism, 32 Butterfly pupal colour polymorphism, 32 Winter pelage: pelts and plumage, 35 Melanism, 37 Industrial melanism, 37 Fire melanism, 40 Background selection, 41 Orientation and positioning, 43 Transparency, 45 Reflectance and silvering, 47 Adaptive colour change, 49 Caterpillars and food plant colouration, 50 Daily and medium¿paced changes, 54 Rapid colour change, 56 Chameleons, 56 Cephalopod chromatophores and dermal papillae, 57 Bird eggs and their backgrounds, 58 Disguising your eyes, 61 Disruptive and distractive markings, 61 Edge¿intercepting patches, 61 Distractive markings, 63 Zebra stripes and tsetse flies, 66 Stripes and motion dazzle - more zebras, kraits and tigers, 69 Computer graphics experiments with human subjects, 69 Observations on real animals, 69 Comparative analysis, 71 Dual signals, 72 Protective crypsis in non¿visual modalities, 73 Apostatic and antiapostatic selection, 73 Search images, 74 ...
