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Dazzle camouflage, target tracking, and the confusion effect

The influence of coloration on the ecology and evolution of moving animals in groups is poorly understood. Animals in groups benefit from the “confusion effect,” where predator attack success is reduced with increasing group size or density. This is thought to be due to a sensory bottleneck: an incr...

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Published in:Behav Ecol
Main Authors: Hogan, Benedict G., Cuthill, Innes C., Scott-Samuel, Nicholas E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5027625/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656087
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw081
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