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Carrick tested the protective value of aposematic coloration by offering birds
mixtures of aposematic and neutral - coloured insects on feeding - trays close to
nests where fledglings were being fed . In a series of seven experiments at nests
of ...
Carrick tested the protective value of aposematic coloration by offering birds
mixtures of aposematic and neutral - coloured insects on feeding - trays close to
nests where fledglings were being fed . In a series of seven experiments at nests
of ...
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As a group , the Anura provide apt material for such a study , both on account of
their relatively simple feeding reactions , and on account of the fact that they hunt
for , and select , their food entirely by sight . The feeding reaction of a frog or toad
...
As a group , the Anura provide apt material for such a study , both on account of
their relatively simple feeding reactions , and on account of the fact that they hunt
for , and select , their food entirely by sight . The feeding reaction of a frog or toad
...
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FEEDING REACTIONS , HABIT FORMATION , AND MEMORY IN THE TOAD
During the summer and autumn of 1933 I carried out a detailed series of
experiments on the feeding reactions , habit formation , and memory of the
Common Toad ...
FEEDING REACTIONS , HABIT FORMATION , AND MEMORY IN THE TOAD
During the summer and autumn of 1933 I carried out a detailed series of
experiments on the feeding reactions , habit formation , and memory of the
Common Toad ...
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Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
COLOUR RESEMBLANCE DUE TO CHOICE OF APPROPRIATE BACKGROUNDS | 18 |
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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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 veeb. 2009 |
| Length | 508 pages |
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