... relatively slow locomotion, which is poorly suited for fleeing, chameleons can also use crypsis or aggression to avoid predation. To examine the functional basis for variable antipredator behavioral responses, we subjected chameleons to a series of mock predation trials and determined how often individuals...

... , J. A. ( 1981 ). An overview of the relationships between mimicry and crypsis . Biol. J. Linn. Soc.   16 , 25 - 31 . 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1981.tb01840.x Endler , J. A. ( 1984 ). Progressive background matching in moths, and a quantitative measure of crypsis . Biol. J. Linn. Soc...

.../ Summary: Hermit crabs prefer shells that are matched to the brightness of their background but make a trade-off between the benefits of camouflaged shells and the danger associated with switching shells. Colouration Background matching Crypsis Vision Background-matching camouflage...

... mating approaches of male buprestid beetles include two stages that use different spectral cues. Buprestidae Color vision Crypsis Flight Species recognition For arthropods, there have been extensive studies regarding the role of color preferences with respect to flower selection...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Cephalopod Chromatophore Flashing Signaling Flickering Crypsis Dosidicus gigas d'Orbigny 1835, commonly known as the Humboldt or jumbo flying squid, is a large pelagic squid of the family Ommastrephidae with a range extending from British...

..., crypsis through background matching and social interactions. However, the mechanisms underlying reversible colour changes are yet to be thoroughly investigated. This study aims to determine the environmental and hormonal factors underlying morphological colour changes in Thomisus onustus crab spiders...

...-responsiveness after injury extends to visual stimuli. Injured squid are more likely to employ crypsis than escape in response to an approaching visual stimulus shortly after injury, but initiate escape earlier and continue escape behaviors for longer when tested from 1 to 48 h after injury. Injury failed...

... the criteria for assessing crypsis better than many other models, and claimed to use colour changes for both aggressive and protective crypsis. We carried out a systematic field survey to quantitatively assess the exactness of background colour matching in M. vatia with respect to the visual system of many...

... as experimentation and other approaches help refine them. There is general agreement, however, that background matching [`where the appearance generally matches the color, lightness and pattern of one (specialist) or several (compromise) background types' op. cit. ] is one of the most common mechanisms of crypsis...

... system crypsis chromatophore cephalopod Camouflage is a common and powerful adaptation to visual predation throughout all animal phyla. Several mechanisms of camouflage, or crypsis, are known: general background resemblance, deceptive resemblance, disruptive coloration, countershading...