Camouflage is an important anti-predator strategy for many animals and is traditionally
thought of as being tightly linked to a specific visual background. While much work focuses …

One cannot help being impressed by the near-perfect camouflage of a moth matching the
colour and pattern of the tree on which it rests, or of the many examples in nature of animals …

Disruptive colouration is a visual camouflage composed of false edges and boundaries.
Many disruptively camouflaged animals feature enhanced edges; light patches are …

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of camouflage studies. The renewed
interest in concealment has partly arisen following a growing body of research into warning …

Camouflage is an important strategy in animals to prevent predation. This includes
disruptive coloration, where high-contrast markings placed at an animal's edge break up the …

Camouflage–adaptations that prevent detection and/or recognition–is a key example of
evolution by natural selection, making it a primary focus in evolutionary ecology and animal …

Camouflage may be achieved in three ways: crypsis, disruptive coloration and masquerade
(Endler 1981). Cryptic prey resemble random samples of the visual background (Endler …

Camouflage typically involves colour patterns that match the background. However, it has
been argued that concealment may be achieved by strategic use of apparently conspicuous …

Animal camouflage represents one of the most important ways of preventing (or facilitating)
predation. It attracted the attention of the earliest evolutionary biologists, and today remains …

Camouflage through background matching is a widespread antipredator strategy in which
animals blend in with their background to avoid detection. To maximise survival in a variable …