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Concealing coloration in animals / Judy Diamond and Alan B. Bond.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013Description: x, 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674052352
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 581.4/72 23
LOC classification:
  • QL767 .D53 2013
Contents:
Concealment. Disappearing acts -- Mistaken identity -- Pepper & smoke -- Obscured by patterns -- Perception. Colors in the mind -- Beholder's eye -- Isolation. Desert islands -- Flowing genes -- Detection. Telltale signs -- Psychology of search -- Distinctively different -- Limits to invisibility -- Guide to common and scientific names.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-257) and index.

Concealment. Disappearing acts -- Mistaken identity -- Pepper & smoke -- Obscured by patterns -- Perception. Colors in the mind -- Beholder's eye -- Isolation. Desert islands -- Flowing genes -- Detection. Telltale signs -- Psychology of search -- Distinctively different -- Limits to invisibility -- Guide to common and scientific names.

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