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Page 68
Such patterns as we have so far considered are successful because they appear
to break up the continuous surface of the body . Now this optical device is carried
even further in the case of many animals where the pattern appears to join ...
Such patterns as we have so far considered are successful because they appear
to break up the continuous surface of the body . Now this optical device is carried
even further in the case of many animals where the pattern appears to join ...
Page 111
In the previous account of disruptive patterns , we saw that a certain class of
patterns which coincide or run across from one part of the body to anotherfor
instance , from the back to the leg , as in many grasshoppers and frogs — have
an ...
In the previous account of disruptive patterns , we saw that a certain class of
patterns which coincide or run across from one part of the body to anotherfor
instance , from the back to the leg , as in many grasshoppers and frogs — have
an ...
Page 211
This plane of expansion may lie , in relation to the axis of the body , in one of
three directions : ( 1 ) transversely , as in the case of the Elizabethan ruff of the
Australian Frilled Lizard ( Chlamydosaurus kingii ) ( Fig . 55 ) ; ( 2 ) horizontally ,
as in ...
This plane of expansion may lie , in relation to the axis of the body , in one of
three directions : ( 1 ) transversely , as in the case of the Elizabethan ruff of the
Australian Frilled Lizard ( Chlamydosaurus kingii ) ( Fig . 55 ) ; ( 2 ) horizontally ,
as in ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Adaptive Coloration in Animals |
| Author | Hugh Bamford Cott |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Methuen, 1957 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 mai 2006 |
| Length | 508 pages |
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