The strategies underlying different forms of protective coloration are well understood but little
attention has been paid to the ecological, life‐history and behavioural circumstances under …

Abnormal caudal regeneration, the production of additional tails through regeneration
events, occurs in lepidosaurs as a result of incomplete autotomy or sufficient caudal wound …

Understanding the functions of animal coloration has been a long‐standing question in
evolutionary biology. For example, the widespread occurrence of striking longitudinal stripes …

Eyespot patterns have evolved in many prey species. These patterns were traditionally
explained by the eye mimicry hypothesis, which proposes that eyespots resembling …

Although camouflage as an effective antipredator defense strategy is widespread across
animals, highly conspicuous color patterning is not uncommon either. Many orb‐web …

Complete functional descriptions of the induction sequences of phenotypically plastic traits
(perception to physiological regulation to response to outcome) should help us to clarify how …

Uropeltid snakes (Family Uropeltidae) are non-venomous, fossorial snakes that are found
above ground occasionally, during which time they are exposed to predation. Many species …

In this review, we relate theoretical work on the importance of surprise in cognition to
empirical research relevant to surprise in predator–prey interactions. There have been …

Understanding the adaptive function of conspicuous coloration has been a major focus of
evolutionary biology for much of the last century. Although considerable progress has been …

A number of strategies that divert attacks of visually guided predators, such as birds, have
evolved multiple times in animals. Detritus web decorations built by certain orb‐web spider …