The key role of behaviour in animal camouflage

• Published in: Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Vol. 94; no. 1; pp. 116 - 134
• Main Authors: Stevens, Martin, Ruxton, Graeme D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2019
• Subjects: Animal morphology; behaviour; Camouflage; crypsis; Decision making; Ecological monitoring; Ecology; Evolution; Genetics; Imprinting; learning; Materials science; Materials selection; Morphology; movement; Orientation behavior; Original; Predation; Psychology; vision; vision; decision-making; crypsis; behaviour; learning; camouflage; movement
• ISSN: 1464-7931; 1469-185X; 1469-185X
• DOI: 10.1111/brv.12438

ABSTRACT Animal camouflage represents one of the most important ways of preventing (or facilitating) predation. It attracted the attention of the earliest evolutionary biologists, and today remains a focus of investigation in areas ranging from evolutionary ecology, animal decision‐making, optimal s...