Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... EXPERIMENTS WITH ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY ( 1 ) Birds and Cryptic Prey - Young ( 681 ) has put the theory of concealing coloration to the test in an extensive series of experiments , in which Crows , Buzzards , Owls , Martins , and other ...
... EXPERIMENTS WITH ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY ( 1 ) Birds and Cryptic Prey - Young ( 681 ) has put the theory of concealing coloration to the test in an extensive series of experiments , in which Crows , Buzzards , Owls , Martins , and other ...
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Hugh Bamford Cott. It should be mentioned here that observations during the above experiments ( besides further experiments carried out especially to test the relative activity of the ' blacks ' and ' whites ' as a factor which might ...
Hugh Bamford Cott. It should be mentioned here that observations during the above experiments ( besides further experiments carried out especially to test the relative activity of the ' blacks ' and ' whites ' as a factor which might ...
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... experiments by McAtee and Hargitt in order to show how easily false conceptions may be arrived at by insufficient data . In my own experiments with Toads , described below , during the first two days 31 out of 34 individuals ( 91 per ...
... experiments by McAtee and Hargitt in order to show how easily false conceptions may be arrived at by insufficient data . In my own experiments with Toads , described below , during the first two days 31 out of 34 individuals ( 91 per ...
Contents
SEASONAL DIMORPHISM | 17 |
MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR | 24 |
OBLITERATIVE SHADING | 35 |
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