[HTML][HTML] The use of background matching vs. masquerade for camouflage in cuttlefish Sepia officinalis

KC Buresch, LM Mäthger, JJ Allen, C Bennice, N Smith… - Vision research, 2011 - Elsevier
Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, commonly use their visually-guided, rapid adaptive camouflage
for multiple tactics to avoid detection or recognition by predators. Two common tactics are …

[HTML][HTML] Interactive effects of size, contrast, intensity and configuration of background objects in evoking disruptive camouflage in cuttlefish

CC Chiao, C Chubb, RT Hanlon - Vision Research, 2007 - Elsevier
Disruptive body coloration is a primary camouflage tactic of cuttlefish. Because rapid
changeable coloration of cephalopods is guided visually, we can present different visual …

[HTML][HTML] Cuttlefish camouflage: Blending in by matching background features

MJ How, M Santon - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
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Changeable cuttlefish camouflage is influenced by horizontal and vertical aspects of the visual background

A Barbosa, L Litman, RT Hanlon - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2008 - Springer
Cuttlefish change their appearance rapidly for camouflage on different backgrounds.
Effective camouflage for a benthic organism such as cuttlefish must deceive predators …

Cuttlefish dynamic camouflage: responses to substrate choice and integration of multiple visual cues

JJ Allen, LM Mäthger, A Barbosa… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Prey camouflage is an evolutionary response to predation pressure. Cephalopods have
extensive camouflage capabilities and studying them can offer insight into effective …

Vertical visual features have a strong influence on cuttlefish camouflage

KM Ulmer, KC Buresch, MM Kossodo… - The Biological …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Cuttlefish and other cephalopods use visual cues from their surroundings to adaptively
change their body pattern for camouflage. Numerous previous experiments have …

[HTML][HTML] Cuttlefish camouflage: the effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns

A Barbosa, LM Mäthger, KC Buresch, J Kelly, C Chubb… - Vision research, 2008 - Elsevier
Cuttlefish are cephalopod molluscs that achieve dynamic camouflage by rapidly extracting
visual information from the background and neurally implementing an appropriate skin (or …

Cuttlefish cue visually on area—not shape or aspect ratio—of light objects in the substrate to produce disruptive body patterns for camouflage

CC Chiao, RT Hanlon - The Biological Bulletin, 2001 - journals.uchicago.edu
Cephalopods have at least 20 body patterns for camouflage, yet these can be organized into
four categories: uniform, stipple, mottle, and disruptive (1). Among them, disruptive …

Visual perception and camouflage response to 3D backgrounds and cast shadows in the European cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

A El Nagar, D Osorio, S Zylinski… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
To conceal themselves on the seafloor, European cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, express a
large repertoire of body patterns. Scenes with 3D relief are especially challenging because it …

Cuttlefish camouflage: a quantitative study of patterning

A Shohet, R Baddeley, J Anderson… - Biological Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
To investigate camouflage design, we compared the responses of two species of cuttlefish
(Sepia officinalis and Sepia pharaonis) with controlled but naturalistic backgrounds …