[PDF] Animal Coloration eBook

Author : Robert Cyril Stebbins
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 1933531290

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A classic resource for teachers is now back in an updated edition. Using an inductive and experimental approach, Animal Coloration aims to increase students' awareness of the ways wild organisms are adapted to their environments.

Author : Judy Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674074203

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Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But it can also conceal animals from detection. It is an adaptation to the visual features of the environment but also to the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of other organisms. Judy Diamond and Alan Bond reveal factors at work in the evolution of concealing coloration.

Author : Frank Evers Beddard
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2015-09-03
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ISBN : 9781341417214

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Author : Frank E 1858-1925 Beddard
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
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ISBN : 9781359140838

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Frank Evers Beddard
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230223704

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. WARNING COLORATION. In the preceding chapter attention has been directed to numerous instances of colour and arrangement of colour which appear to have the result of rendering the animal similar to its surroundings. The colours known as '" warning" have a precisely opposite tendency--viz., to render their possessor conspicuous. As the explanation of warning colours was first devised by Mr. Wallace to account for the brilliancy in the tints of certain caterpillars, and as the whole subject has been principally studied by experiments upon these animals, we shall commence here, and afterwards pass on to other groups. The Magpie Moth Caterpillar as an Instance of Warning Colours. One of the most abundant caterpillars in any garden is that of the "Magpie" moth (Abraxas grossulariata); it belongs to the Geometers, but has not the habit, which most of its allies have, of remaining during the day stretched out rigidly from a twig. Nor does it approximate in colour, as do nearly all other Geometers, to the plants upon which it feeds. The colour of the Magpie caterpillar is white, with black stripes and dots, and some reddish marks below. Mr. Jenuer Weir, Mr. A. G. Butler, and Mr. Poultou, found that several birds, lizards, frogs and spiders, almost invariably refused to touch this caterpillar when offered to them; occasionally it was tasted by the tree frog, and once "chewed for some time," but finally rejected, by a hungry Lacerta, muralis. Mr. Weir once found that a specimen was eaten by Lacerta viridis. Some experiments made by myself at the Zoological Gardens partly confirm and partly contradict the conclusion to which the above observations appear to point--viz., that the larva is regarded by birds as inedible. Several...

Author : Frank Evers Beddard
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781294028314

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