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    strategy, crypsis is used by predators against prey and by prey against predators. Crypsis also applies to eggs and pheromone production. Crypsis can in...
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  • Crypsis has two distinct meanings in biology: organisms that hide themselves: crypsis organisms that are difficult to distinguish: crypsis (taxonomy) Cryptozoology...
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    in the genus Crypsis, according to contemporary taxonomic treatments: Crypsis aculeata – from Portugal and Mauritania to Korea Crypsis acuminata – from...
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    $150 million April 2020: CloudGenix, Inc. for $420 million August 2020: Crypsis Group for $265 million November 2020: Palo Alto Networks announced its...
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    like foliage rustling in the wind. This behaviour may represent motion crypsis, preventing detection by predators, or motion masquerade, promoting misclassification...
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    nom. illeg. Crypsis brachystachys Trab. Crypsis explicata (Link) F.Herm. Crypsis geniculata Roem. & Schult. Crypsis macrostachya Brot. Crypsis nigricans...
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    various ways that crypsis can evolve among lineages. Many cephalopods have the ability to actively camouflage themselves, controlling crypsis through neural...
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    March 2024. Clayton, W.D.; Vorontsova, M.S.; Harman, K.T.; Williamson, H. "Crypsis schoenoides". GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. Royal Botanic Gardens...
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    Opiliones (section Crypsis)
    help the harvestmen avoid encountering a potential predator and include crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry. Particular patterns or colour markings on harvestmen's...
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    In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between...
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  • Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 February 2022. Mifsud, Stephen (2002-08-23). "Crypsis aculeata (Pricklegrass) : MaltaWildPlants.com - the online Flora of the...
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    Crypsis vaginiflora is a species of grass known by the common name modest pricklegrass. It is native to North Africa but it can be found in other parts...
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    cocoons than nests in low predation areas. Animals use the techniques of crypsis or camouflage, concealment, and mimicry, for avoiding detection.: 11  Some...
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    Urochondra (redirect from Crypsis setulosa)
    setulosus (Trin.) A.Terracc. Crypsis setulosa (Trin.) Mez Heleochloa setulosa (Trin.) Blatt. & McCann Agrostis elatior Steud. Crypsis dura Boiss. Heleochloa...
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    Maloney SK (February 2014). "The fur of mammals in exposed environments; do crypsis and thermal needs necessarily conflict? The polar bear and marsupial koala...
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    strongly contrasting pattern. It is often combined with other methods of crypsis including background colour matching and countershading; special cases...
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    derived from the Latin word vespertīnus, an adjective meaning "evening". Crypsis Matutinal Look up vespertine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Simpson...
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    to join, prey crypsis imposes a producer specific cost that shifts the producer scrounger equilibria towards more scrounging. Prey crypsis resulted in increased...
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    theories dominate the literature, that its frequency is the result of crypsis, and/or the result of thermoregulation. It has been theorized that non-melanistic...
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    primates have evolved several different antipredator adaptations including crypsis, alarm calls and mobbing. Several species have separate alarm calls for...
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    pattern compared to that of the background is significant in display and crypsis". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 32 (4): 427–433. doi:10.1111/j...
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    mimesis (from ancient Greek μίμησις mímēsis, "imitation") is a form of crypsis where living creatures mimic the form, colour and posture of their surroundings...
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    necrophagous beetle, is most active during at dusk and dawn. Cathemeral Crypsis Diurnality Nocturnality "Glossary". North American Mammals. Smithsonian...
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    disruptive coloration to blend into the environment similar to a frog's crypsis skin. The M1942 Frog Skin pattern was the United States military's first...
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    century, with the discovery of Batesian mimicry in plants in 2003, and crypsis or leaf mimicry in 2014. Until then, mimicry in plants was studied infrequently...
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    Speed, Michael P. (2004). Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals, and mimicry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198528593...
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    pollinated both during the day and at night. Nocturnality is a form of crypsis, an adaptation to avoid or enhance predation. Although lions are cathemeral...
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    Timema californica). In a further behavioral adaptation to supplement crypsis, a number of species perform a rocking motion where the body is swayed...
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    striking yellow-and-black color pattern. Puff adders have a form of olfactory crypsis which has been shown to make detecting them difficult for trained dogs...
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  • heat-detecting night vision devices (thermographic camera systems). For crypsis, the panels can display an infrared image of the vehicle's background;...
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