Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Animal camouflage
- 2 Crypsis through background matching
- 3 The concealment of body parts through coincident disruptive coloration
- 4 The history, theory and evidence for a cryptic function of countershading
- 5 Camouflage-breaking mathematical operators and countershading
- 6 Nature's artistry
- 7 Camouflage behaviour and body orientation on backgrounds containing directional patterns
- 8 Camouflage and visual perception
- 9 Rapid adaptive camouflage in cephalopods
- 10 What can camouflage tell us about non-human visual perception? A case study of multiple cue use in cuttlefish (Sepia spp.)
- 11 Camouflage in marine fish
- 12 Camouflage in decorator crabs
- 13 Camouflage in colour-changing animals
- 14 The multiple disguises of spiders
- 15 Effects of animal camouflage on the evolution of live backgrounds
- 16 The functions of black-and-white coloration in mammals
- 17 Evidence for camouflage involving senses other than vision
- Index
- Plate section
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Animal camouflage
- 2 Crypsis through background matching
- 3 The concealment of body parts through coincident disruptive coloration
- 4 The history, theory and evidence for a cryptic function of countershading
- 5 Camouflage-breaking mathematical operators and countershading
- 6 Nature's artistry
- 7 Camouflage behaviour and body orientation on backgrounds containing directional patterns
- 8 Camouflage and visual perception
- 9 Rapid adaptive camouflage in cephalopods
- 10 What can camouflage tell us about non-human visual perception? A case study of multiple cue use in cuttlefish (Sepia spp.)
- 11 Camouflage in marine fish
- 12 Camouflage in decorator crabs
- 13 Camouflage in colour-changing animals
- 14 The multiple disguises of spiders
- 15 Effects of animal camouflage on the evolution of live backgrounds
- 16 The functions of black-and-white coloration in mammals
- 17 Evidence for camouflage involving senses other than vision
- Index
- Plate section
Summary

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- Animal CamouflageMechanisms and Function, pp. 351 - 357Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011