Disruptive coloration is a common camouflage strategy that breaks body outlines and
ostensibly blends organisms into complex backgrounds. However, contrasting false edges …

Animals living in heterogeneous natural environments adopt different camouflage strategies
against different backgrounds, and behavioral adaptation is crucial for their survival …

Background matching is an important way to camouflage and is widespread among animals.
In the field, however, few studies have addressed background matching, and there has been …

An animal's coloration can be involved in communication and crypsis and change
dynamically over time. We studied spectral reflectance of color pattern and substrate color …

Masquerade is a form of camouflage in which animals use their body size, shape, and
coloration to resemble inanimate objects in their environment to deceive predators …

24 Herpetological Bulletin 150 (2019) throughout the plastron (except sutures), up to the
plastron edge and the hinges. This coloration is likely superficial as evident by its flaky …

The objective quantification of integumentary color and its pigmentary basis have been
relatively little studied in turtles. We used reflectance spectrometry to measure the color of …

The carapace color of newborn big-headed turtles (Platysternon megacephalum) is
polymorphic and usually consists of two phenotypes: yellowish brown and olive green. As …

Background color convergence of prey occurring through local adaptation or phenotypically
plastic responses can reduce predation rates by visual predators. We assessed the capacity …

Bright colorations in animals are sometimes an antipredatory signal meant to startle, warn,
or deter a predator from consuming a prey organism. Freshwater turtle hatchlings of many …