Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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Page 12
... rock and sand of a sun - baked wilderness . Such species seem almost invariably to be coloured like their sur ... rocks of the Painted Desert of Arizona ; P. d . douglassii the uni - coloured soil of Oregon ; P. platyrhinos , at ...
... rock and sand of a sun - baked wilderness . Such species seem almost invariably to be coloured like their sur ... rocks of the Painted Desert of Arizona ; P. d . douglassii the uni - coloured soil of Oregon ; P. platyrhinos , at ...
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... Rock Pocket - mouse ( Perognathus intermedius ) , the Cactus Mouse ( Peromyscus eremicus ) , the White - throated Wood ... rocks ; and the authors point out that this correspondence cannot be the result of coincidence , nor can it be due ...
... Rock Pocket - mouse ( Perognathus intermedius ) , the Cactus Mouse ( Peromyscus eremicus ) , the White - throated Wood ... rocks ; and the authors point out that this correspondence cannot be the result of coincidence , nor can it be due ...
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... rock . On the neighbouring sandy plain this was replaced by a pale race ( A. d . coxi ) . Both exactly matched the colour of the soil on which they lived , and doubtless nested . Major Cheesman points out that : It cannot be contended ...
... rock . On the neighbouring sandy plain this was replaced by a pale race ( A. d . coxi ) . Both exactly matched the colour of the soil on which they lived , and doubtless nested . Major Cheesman points out that : It cannot be contended ...
Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
CONCLUSION | 15 |
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