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17 - Evidence for camouflage involving senses other than vision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Graeme D. Ruxton
Edited by
Martin Stevens  and
Sami Merilaita
Graeme D. Ruxton
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Martin Stevens
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Sami Merilaita
Affiliation:
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
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Summary

The aim of this chapter is to review the evidence that organisms have adaptations that have been selected because they confer difficulty of detection by enemies (principally predators and parasites) that primarily detect their prey using sensory systems other than vision. That is, I will review the empirical evidence for non-visual crypsis and explore how our understanding of visual crypsis can be expanded to non-visual sensory systems. The review is arranged in terms of different sensory modalities.

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Animal Camouflage
Mechanisms and Function
 , pp. 330 - 350
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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