Camouflage, detection and identification of moving targets

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1758, 2013, Pages

  Hall, Joanna R ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Baddeley, Roland ^a   Shohet, Adam J ^b   Scott Samuel, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background matching; Crypsis; Disruptive patterns; Motion camouflage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CRYPSIS; DETECTION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PREDATION;

EID: 84878116977     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0064     Document Type: Article

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