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Camouflaging in a Complex Environment—Octopuses Use Specific Features of Their Surroundings for Background Matching

Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ability that exploits features of their surroundings to enable them to “blend in.” To achieve such background matching, an animal may use general resemblance and reproduce characteristics of its entir...

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Main Authors: Josef, Noam, Amodio, Piero, Fiorito, Graziano, Shashar, Nadav
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359305/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649542
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037579
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