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A rare and very handsome lizard of the most brilliant green hue which I took on
Marajó Island was subsequently identified with a species known to science by
the inappropriate name of Urocentron azureum , whose colour had repeatedly
been ...
A rare and very handsome lizard of the most brilliant green hue which I took on
Marajó Island was subsequently identified with a species known to science by
the inappropriate name of Urocentron azureum , whose colour had repeatedly
been ...
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Such modifications , known as Morphological Colour Changes , tend to be both
slow and permanent in effect , in contrast to Physiological Colour Changes which
, as we shall see in the following section , may be both rapid and reversible .
Such modifications , known as Morphological Colour Changes , tend to be both
slow and permanent in effect , in contrast to Physiological Colour Changes which
, as we shall see in the following section , may be both rapid and reversible .
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So effective are these batteries as a deterrent , that fishes have been known to
eat shelled molluscs such as Margaritifera which had been long pickled in
formalin , in preference to fresh specimens of the Nudibranch Chromodoris ( 121
) .
So effective are these batteries as a deterrent , that fishes have been known to
eat shelled molluscs such as Margaritifera which had been long pickled in
formalin , in preference to fresh specimens of the Nudibranch Chromodoris ( 121
) .
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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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