Imperfect camouflage: how to hide in a variable world?

A Hughes, E Liggins, M Stevens - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited

CC Veilleux, NJ Dominy… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published “The sensory ecology of primate food
perception,” an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate …

[HTML][HTML] Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in shore crabs

O Nokelainen, R Maynes, S Mynott, N Price… - Functional …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in
shore crabs - PMC Back to Top Skip to main content NIH NLM Logo Access keys NCBI …

[HTML][HTML] Commercial harvesting has driven the evolution of camouflage in an alpine plant

Y Niu, M Stevens, H Sun - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Color in nature mediates numerous among and within species interactions, 1 and
anthropogenic impacts have long had major influences on the color evolution of wild …

[HTML][HTML] Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation

J Troscianko, O Nokelainen, J Skelhorn… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding what maintains the broad spectrum of variation in animal phenotypes and
how this influences survival is a key question in biology. Frequency dependent selection …

Finding a signal hidden among noise: how can predators overcome camouflage strategies?

JAM Galloway, SD Green… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Substantial progress has been made in the past 15 years regarding how prey use a variety
of visual camouflage types to exploit both predator visual processing and cognition …

Optimizing colour for camouflage and visibility using deep learning: the effects of the environment and the observer's visual system

JG Fennell, L Talas, RJ Baddeley… - Journal of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Avoiding detection can provide significant survival advantages for prey, predators, or the
military; conversely, maximizing visibility would be useful for signalling. One simple …

Gray plumage color is more cryptic than brown in snowy landscapes in a resident color polymorphic bird

K Koskenpato, A Lehikoinen, C Lindstedt… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Camouflage may promote fitness of given phenotypes in different environments. The tawny
owl (Strix aluco) is a color polymorphic species with a gray and brown morph resident in the …

[PDF][PDF] CamoGAN: evolving optimum camouflage with Generative Adversarial Networks

L Talas, J Fennell, K Kjernsmo… - … in Ecology and …, 2020 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
CamoGAN: Evolving optimum camouflage with Generative Adversarial Networks Page 1
Talas, L., Fennell, J., Kjernsmo, K., Cuthill, I., Scott-Samuel, N., & Baddeley, R. (2020) …

Camouflage in lichen moths: Field predation experiments and avian vision modelling demonstrate the importance of wing pattern elements and background for …

CJ Mark, JC O'Hanlon, GI Holwell - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background matching is perhaps the most ubiquitous form of defensive camouflage in the
animal kingdom, an adaptive strategy that relies on the visual resemblance between a prey …