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    species; and in mimicry, taking advantage of the warning coloration of another species. Some animals use flashes of colour to divert attacks by startling...
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    coloration (also known as disruptive camouflage or disruptive patterning) is a form of camouflage that works by breaking up the outlines of an animal...
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    Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible...
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    are specific areas of an animal coat that are colored differently from the main body colorations. Typical point coloration is represented by a pale body...
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    Animal Coloration, or in full Animal Coloration: An Account of the Principal Facts and Theories Relating to the Colours and Markings of Animals, is a...
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    Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the top or upper side and lighter on the underside of...
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  • Adaptive Coloration in Animals is a 500-page textbook about camouflage, warning coloration and mimicry by the Cambridge zoologist Hugh Cott, first published...
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    Agouti is a type of fur coloration in which each hair displays two or more bands of pigmentation. The overall appearance of agouti fur is usually gray...
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    the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising...
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    Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer's Discoveries...
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  • Fish coloration, a subset of animal coloration, is extremely diverse. Fish across all taxa vary greatly in their coloration through special mechanisms...
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    are the subjects of myths and worship. Animal coloration Ethology Lists of organisms by population World Animal Day, observed on 4 October Henneguya zschokkei...
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    article about animal coloration in 1877. In 1890 Edward Bagnall Poulton renamed the concept aposematism in his book The Colours of Animals. He described...
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    Animal coloration provided important early evidence for evolution by natural selection, at a time when little direct evidence was available. Three major...
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  • property thereof Animal coloration, topic of research regarding animals' adaptive appearance Cryptic coloration or camouflage, making animals or objects hard...
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    Crypsis (redirect from Animal camouflage)
    auditory concealment. When it is visual, the term cryptic coloration, effectively a synonym for animal camouflage, is sometimes used, but many different methods...
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    Fur (redirect from Animal fur)
    2019 Angora wool Animal coloration Cat coat genetics Coat (animal) Plumage Rabbit hair Tanning (leather) Futfell Skinning "Fur | animal skin". Encyclopedia...
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  • Light Rainbow Visible Spectral colors Chromophore Structural coloration Animal coloration Color of chemicals Water Spectral power distribution Colorimetry...
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    recessive for all animals. In cats, two copies of cs, one from each parent, are needed for points to be expressed. Point coloration in cats originated...
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    Handerson Thayer, on a book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. First published by Macmillan in 1909...
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    Retrieved 26 December 2020. "Why Cats Sniff Rear Ends | VCA Animal Hospital | VCA Animal Hospitals". Vca. "The Amazing Sense of Smell - Cats International"...
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    Gaussia-based cell viability assays use the substrate coelenterazine. Animal coloration Biophoton Life That Glows, 2016 full-length documentary However, the...
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    argue the case for Darwinian selection applying to all aspects of animal coloration. The book also pioneered the concept of frequency-dependent selection...
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    Light Rainbow Visible Spectral colors Chromophore Structural coloration Animal coloration Color of chemicals Water Spectral power distribution Colorimetry...
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  • as photonic crystals. Other animal photonic crystals have evolved to reflect narrow spectra, producing animal coloration. The scales of silvery fish,...
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    Light Rainbow Visible Spectral colors Chromophore Structural coloration Animal coloration Color of chemicals Water Spectral power distribution Colorimetry...
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  • domesticated animals, also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals that have an...
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    known to have fractal features include: Actin cytoskeleton Algae Animal coloration patterns Blood vessels and pulmonary vessels Brownian motion (generated...
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    UV coloration is a natural phenomenon that leads to unique interactions between organisms that have evolved the ability to perceive these wavelengths of...
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    structures vary tremendously from breed to breed, more than in any other animal species, wild or domesticated, as dogs are highly variable in height and...
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