Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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Page 96
... device is reproduced among grasshoppers like Edipoda miniata , and bugs like Fulgora spinola , where the membranous hind wings likewise exhibit flash coloration during flight . Moreover , a similar optical effect is seen in the ...
... device is reproduced among grasshoppers like Edipoda miniata , and bugs like Fulgora spinola , where the membranous hind wings likewise exhibit flash coloration during flight . Moreover , a similar optical effect is seen in the ...
Page 145
... devices is a modification of the front margin of wing feathers which function as a true leading edge in flight . It ... device has either never arisen , or has been secondarily lost . Similarly , the domestic cat , like its larger ...
... devices is a modification of the front margin of wing feathers which function as a true leading edge in flight . It ... device has either never arisen , or has been secondarily lost . Similarly , the domestic cat , like its larger ...
Page 355
... device consists of clusters of packets of dead insects rolled in silk sheeting ; Azilia , from British Guiana , is darker in colour and makes its somewhat similar blending device of bits of bark and lichen cut from a tree whose brown ...
... device consists of clusters of packets of dead insects rolled in silk sheeting ; Azilia , from British Guiana , is darker in colour and makes its somewhat similar blending device of bits of bark and lichen cut from a tree whose brown ...
Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
CONCLUSION | 15 |
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