Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... described pose is developed , not by any hurried movement , but by a slow lengthening and attenuation of the figure ' . The same upright posture is practised in an entirely different environment by Bitterns , whose reed - assimilating ...
... described pose is developed , not by any hurried movement , but by a slow lengthening and attenuation of the figure ' . The same upright posture is practised in an entirely different environment by Bitterns , whose reed - assimilating ...
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... described by Bateson as follows : ' The crab takes a piece of weed in his two chele , and neither snatching nor ... described a Geometrid caterpillar from Borneo which adorns itself with flower buds , attached to spinous processes of its ...
... described by Bateson as follows : ' The crab takes a piece of weed in his two chele , and neither snatching nor ... described a Geometrid caterpillar from Borneo which adorns itself with flower buds , attached to spinous processes of its ...
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... described by Poulton ( 497 ) of a Membracid bug , also from Guiana , whose resemblance to a Cooshie Ant ( Ecodoma cephalotis ) carrying its jagged segment of a leaf over its back is remarkable . The leaf is represented by the thin ...
... described by Poulton ( 497 ) of a Membracid bug , also from Guiana , whose resemblance to a Cooshie Ant ( Ecodoma cephalotis ) carrying its jagged segment of a leaf over its back is remarkable . The leaf is represented by the thin ...
Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
CONCLUSION | 15 |
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