Our understanding of camouflage has been developing for over 100 years. Several
underlying principles have emerged. Background pattern matching, or crypsis, is insufficient …

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 …

Our understanding of camouflage, in military as well as in evolutionary perspectives, has
been developing over the last 100 years. In that period of time several underlying principles …

One of the oldest theories of animal camouflage predicts that apparently conspicuous
markings enhance concealment. Such 'distraction'marks are hypothesized to work by …

Effective camouflage renders a target indistinguishable from irrelevant background objects.
Two interrelated but logically distinct mechanisms for this are background pattern matching …

Camouflage is ubiquitous in the natural world and benefits both predators and prey.
Amongst the range of concealment strategies, disruptive coloration is thought to visually …

In 1896 American artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer published an article in The
Auk entitled'The law which underlies protective coloration'. In this article he observed …

Camouflage and warning coloration are usually viewed as alternative defensive strategies
at opposite ends of the conspicuousness continuum. However, camouflage is compromised …

Natural selection shapes the evolution of anti-predator defences, such as camouflage. It is
currently contentious whether crypsis and disruptive coloration are alternative mechanisms …

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 …