The history, theory and evidence for a cryptic function of countershading

Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 53-72

  Rowland, Hannah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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