Scorpionfish adjust skin pattern contrast on different backgrounds
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11124
Abstract: Abstract The two scorpionfish species Scorpaena maderensis and S. porcus are well camouflaged ambush predators that rapidly change body colouration to adjust to background colour in less than 1 min. We tested whether individuals of both… read more here.
Keywords: adjust skin; contrast; pattern; pattern contrast ... See more keywords
Pattern contrast influences wariness in naïve predators towards aposematic patterns
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65754-y
Abstract: An apparent and common feature of aposematic patterns is that they contain a high level of achromatic (luminance) contrast, for example, many warning signals combine black spots and stripes with a lighter colour such as… read more here.
Keywords: contrast; luminance contrast; contrast influences; pattern contrast ... See more keywords