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Hugh Bamford Cott (6 July 1900 – 18 April 1987) was a British zoologist, an authority on both natural and military camouflage, and a scientific illustrator and photographer. Many of his field studies took place in Africa , where he was especially interested in the Nile crocodile , the evolution of pattern and colour in animals.
The zoologist Hugh Cott had the final word in Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940), a definitive synthesis of everything known about camouflage and mimicry in nature. Cott ruffled fewer feathers [than Trofim Lysenko or Vladimir Nabokov ], and his well-organized and unfanatic ideas proved militarily effective, even under the scrutiny of ...
The English zoologist and camouflage expert Hugh Cott explained, while discussing "a little frog known as Megalixalus fornasinii" in the chapter on coincident disruptive coloration in his 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals, that [2]
Cott called this a special case of a "coincident disruptive pattern". [7] Another camouflage mechanism, distractive markings, also involves conspicuous marks and has for a century since Thayer's initial description been conflated with it, but the two require different kinds of marking. For distraction, the markings should be small and should ...
Hugh Bamford Cott's 500-page book Adaptive Coloration in Animals, published in wartime 1940, systematically described the principles of camouflage and mimicry. The book contains hundreds of examples, over a hundred photographs and Cott's own accurate and artistic drawings, and 27 pages of references.
Wintour, the longest-serving editor-in-chief of Vogue, received the Order of the Companions of Honour from King Charles III. She was appointed to the prestigious order as part of the King’s ...
Hugh Cott was chief instructor; the artist camouflage officers, who called themselves camoufleurs, included Steven Sykes and Tony Ayrton. [168] [169] In Australia, artists were also prominent in the Sydney Camouflage Group, formed under the chairmanship of Professor William John Dakin, a zoologist from Sydney University.
King’s first assignment was as a nurse at Douglas Army Airfield in Arizona, where she met her husband, Hugh Thadius Bell, at the post exchange. Soon after, she signed up for overseas duty and ...