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in a place covered with green herbage , and to brown plants in a place where the
herbage was burnt and brown , the distribution being as follows : 65 brown
specimens - 45 on green and 20 on brown plants ; 45 green specimens — 25 on
...
in a place covered with green herbage , and to brown plants in a place where the
herbage was burnt and brown , the distribution being as follows : 65 brown
specimens - 45 on green and 20 on brown plants ; 45 green specimens — 25 on
...
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GILBERT WHITE I. PROTECTIVE ADAPTATIONS IN PORCUPINES THE
Common Porcupine ( Hystrix cristata ) is the well - known possessor of a set of
large quill - like spines , which form a prickly protective armour covering the
animal's back ...
GILBERT WHITE I. PROTECTIVE ADAPTATIONS IN PORCUPINES THE
Common Porcupine ( Hystrix cristata ) is the well - known possessor of a set of
large quill - like spines , which form a prickly protective armour covering the
animal's back ...
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The larva was completely hidden , being covered over with a hillock of moss
perhaps 50 to 100 times as big as itself . Only the tips of its front legs and the
ends of its pointed jaws projected from under the edge of the heap . On other
occasions ...
The larva was completely hidden , being covered over with a hillock of moss
perhaps 50 to 100 times as big as itself . Only the tips of its front legs and the
ends of its pointed jaws projected from under the edge of the heap . On other
occasions ...
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Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
VARIABLE COLOUR RESEMBLANCE | 20 |
THE PRINCIPLE OF CONCEALMENT BY COUNTERSHADING | 35 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Adaptive Coloration in Animals |
| Author | Hugh Bamford Cott |
| Contributor | Julian Sorell Huxley |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, Limited, 1940 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 15 jaan. 2009 |
| Length | 508 pages |
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