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Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard 's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier , and the leaf-mimic katydid 's wings.
Adaptive Coloration in Animals is a 500-page textbook about camouflage, warning coloration and mimicry by the Cambridge zoologist Hugh Cott, first published during the Second World War in 1940; the book sold widely and made him famous.
In 1909, Abbott Handerson Thayer described the snowy owl's black markings on its white snow camouflage as distractive. [1]Distractive markings serve to camouflage animals or military vehicles by drawing the observer's attention away from the object as a whole, such as noticing its outline.
This free downloadable lesson plan explores various species of animals that camouflage and dives deeper into how and why animals utilize this unique survival strategy.
Thayer's 1902 patent application. He failed to convince the US Navy. The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, author of The Colours of Animals (1890) discovered the countershading of various insects, including the pupa or chrysalis of the purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris, [2] the caterpillar larvae of the brimstone moth, Opisthograptis luteolata [a] and of the peppered moth, Biston ...
12 animals who use camouflage to conceal themselves. Jessica Butler. May 5, 2017 at 12:09 PM. ... Since the beginning of time animals have either adapted or come face-to-face with extinction ...
The Colours of Animals: their meaning and use especially considered in the case of insects. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. Stevens, Martin; Merilaita, Sami (2011). Animal Camouflage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-19911-7. Wickler, Wolfgang (1968). Mimicry in plants and animals. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-1-114-82438-6
The Colours of Animals is a zoology book written in 1890 by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943). It was the first substantial textbook to argue the case for Darwinian selection applying to all aspects of animal coloration.