Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... conspicuous and which breeds quite in the open . But in this case the parent bird is a strong flyer and thus tolerably safe from attack ( so that it hardly falls into the present category ) : but what makes the case so interesting is ...
... conspicuous and which breeds quite in the open . But in this case the parent bird is a strong flyer and thus tolerably safe from attack ( so that it hardly falls into the present category ) : but what makes the case so interesting is ...
Page 200
... conspicuous on the wing , the flight being slow as in Coccinella , feeble as in Hipocrita , leisurely as in Heliconius , or noisy as in Bombus and Sirex . VII . GREGARIOUS HABITS OF APOSEMATIC ANIMALS Another habit of aposematic animals ...
... conspicuous on the wing , the flight being slow as in Coccinella , feeble as in Hipocrita , leisurely as in Heliconius , or noisy as in Bombus and Sirex . VII . GREGARIOUS HABITS OF APOSEMATIC ANIMALS Another habit of aposematic animals ...
Page 370
... conspicuous area may have a warning ( aposematic ) rather than a directive ( parasematic ) function - like that of the conspicuous tussocks ' in many Lymantriid caterpillars . ( An interesting extension of the principle here described ...
... conspicuous area may have a warning ( aposematic ) rather than a directive ( parasematic ) function - like that of the conspicuous tussocks ' in many Lymantriid caterpillars . ( An interesting extension of the principle here described ...
Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
CONCLUSION | 15 |
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