We simply call it protective coloration, and yet it’s one of the major keys to survival and the evolutionary development for a wide variety of animal, plant, and insect species. The chameleons, ...

WHILE collecting information on the use of colour-protection among birds, my attention has been directed to what appears to be a very interesting generalisation, viz. that among birds which nest on ...

Being poisonous can only protect you if potential predators know you’re poisonous. Many plants and animals have evolved protective coloration that bellows it in big, bad-tasting letters: “EAT ME AND ...

PROCRYPTICALLY coloured insects may resemble objects occurring in their environment very closely 1; thus leaf-mimicking butterflies may bear markings resembling veins, holes eaten by phytophagous ...