… As we discuss below, disruptive camouflage is often identified by the presence of visual
contrasts in a coloration pattern which are higher than those of the background. It is therefore of …

… These were not intended to mimic any real species of moth, but the markings were designed
to match the visual texture of mature oak bark. Patterns were samples of digital photos of …

… how disruptive camouflage functions, and describe the visual … local edge disruption hypothesis
states that camouflage is … (2) The global feature disruption hypothesis states camouflage …

… Our study demonstrates facultative expression of camouflage strategies dependent on
the visual environment, with implications for the evolution and interrelatedness of defensive …

… featured in the current study is both background matching and disruptive – the texture of
the target is visually similar to that of the leafy background and colours of the texture and the …

… visual camouflage. One of the most common and effective visual camouflage techniques
is disruptive … relative to the surface texture can also play an important part in camouflage [25]. …

… A model of avian visual edge processing showed that surface disruption does not make …
visual mechanism. Our study has implications for whether animals can combine disruptive …

… components might be used in both background matching and disruptive camouflage. (a)
True disruptive camouflage advantage may be conveyed when components are strongly …

… Both strategies disrupt the visual signals that would normally give away an animal or … We
collapsed each participant's data over the texture patterns and target quadrant, leaving three …

… disrupt the unambiguous encoding of discontinuities of intensity (edges), and of other key
visual … Rather, it is the statistical distribution of properties of the texture that is a characteristic …