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Can't tell the caterpillars from the trees: countershading enhances survival in a woodland

Perception of the body's outline and three-dimensional shape arises from visual cues such as shading, contour, perspective and texture. When a uniformly coloured prey animal is illuminated from above by sunlight, a shadow may be cast on the body, generating a brightness contrast between the dor...

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Auteurs principaux: Rowland, Hannah M, Cuthill, Innes C, Harvey, Ian F, Speed, Michael P, Ruxton, Graeme D
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2008
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605806/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18700207
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0812
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