Interactions between background matching and motion during visual detection can explain why cryptic animals keep still

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-193

  Ioannou, Christos C ^a,b   Krause, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti predator traits; Background matching; Coevolution; Crypsis; Motionlessness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COEVOLUTION; CRYPSIS; FLY; LARVA; MIMICRY; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PREDATION RISK; TELEOST; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CRYPSIS; LARVA; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VISION; ANIMAL; CHIRONOMIDAE; EVOLUTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; EVOLUTION; MOVEMENT; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65349152474     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0758     Document Type: Article

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